“They hate you. But you are useful to them.”

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| China web debris |

In What Do They Really Think of Us Laowai?, a delegation member from a foreign NGO that has a longstanding good relationship with the Chinese gov. gets a staight answer.

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空调病

Pronounced: kōngtiáo bìng
Means: "air conditioning disease". You aren't feeling sick because you spent all day out in the blazing hot sun in a humid Chinese summer and got heat stroke; you're feeling sick because after spending all day out in the blazing hot sun not getting heat stroke you went inside and exposed yourself to the air conditioner. It's not heat stroke; it's air conditioner disease. If you still don't believe:

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China's "other billion"

A journalist with over seven years experience in China is taking a six-month journey through rural China to document the lives of China's "other billion" -- the Chinese who aren't born, raised and educated in relatively developed coastal cities: "I have embarked on what I hope will be a six month journey through the Chinese countryside — listening, watching and telling stories from farmers’ lives. ... China, it is often said, has more than 400 million Internet users and hundreds of millions of new urban residents who are changing the face of the country. It is less often noted that China also has another billion people who have not yet been fully included in these new economic and social changes. The following, if you will, are some fragments from the story of the other billion."

- 2010/08/20

China in 2013 -- a dystopian novel skewers "the China model of development"

The China Beat provides a helpful summary of a dystopian novel critical of the way things are in China: "The novel can be read ... as a realistic presentation of the shocking darkness behind the dazzling economic miracle created by the Chinese model. It also proposes that China’s younger generations suffer from the consequences of collective amnesia and historical half-truths... The book can also be read ... as an allegory of the modern nation-state. Taking China as a case study, by questioning the morality and political legitimacy of the Chinese model of development, the novel is intended to lead us to the potential catastrophes that a modern nation-state may bring about if it is out of its people’s control."

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