Populous eastern Asian nation which has undergone a myriad of changes over the years, but remains one of the oldest civilizations in the world.
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Has Go ever been used to decide a war?
Go is an ancient game, popular today in China, Korea and Japan.
When I was first learning to play I was told 'it was used to train generals and sometimes even played in place of fighting a war.' Since then I have heard this repeated multiple times…
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Are Chinese companies hiring "developer cheerleaders"?
I think the source for this is this Trending In China Facebook post:
Internet companies across China are embracing programming
cheerleaders, pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work
environment. Their job includes buying programmers…
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Did Chinese philosopher "Tson Tse" anticipate key ideas of evolution 2500 years ago?
In his famous book Glimpses of World History, Jawaharlal Nehru writes (p. 610, Penguin 2004 Edition, emphasis mine):
As I have been telling you of Darwin's theory of the origin of
species, it might interest you what a Chinese philosopher wrote on…
user21992
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Are these "mystical caves" in China antique, or modern?
I came across this link Mysterious Cave Complexes discovered in China that describes some caves in China that supposedly were built by unknown people hundreds of years ago. They are known as the HMG or Huashan Mysterious Grottoes.
They are…
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Did China's "One Child Policy" cause or make worse parental gender bias in China?
It's widely reported (at least outside of China) that China's "One Child Policy" caused various forms of parental gender bias in China, such as gender-based abortions, infanticide or adoptions:
The one-child policy had a profound effect on the…
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Did a man jump to his death after too much shopping?
According to a news article, Man commits suicide after girlfriend refuses to quit shopping, a man in China jumped to his death after his girlfriend insisted on going to one more shoe outlet after an enormous shopping spree.
I find this hard to…
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Death by exploding office chair?
Some old news reports "Chinese boy killed when height adjusting mechanism in chair explodes" 1
There are a lot of similar news, all happened in China.
Can this mechanisms explode ?
Is the explosion sufficient to hurt or kill a person ?
Any…
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Are bagged turtles and goldfish sold as keychains in China?
So there is this letter going around facebook:
PLEASE SHARE IT , HUMBLE REQUEST ----
On a commercial street in China, little tortoises are found packaged as souvenir!!! These little tortoises are still alive and swimming inside a herbal solution.…
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Is the Chinese government responsible for hacking U.S businesses and government?
Over the past 18 months there have been several news articles pointing the finger at the Chinese government over hacks on U.S government and businesses.
Most recently: China Suspected of Hacking US Defense Firms, Others — Largest Theft 'In…
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Did three researchers (connected to "gain of function" work) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fall ill with Covid-19 symptoms in Nov 2019?
Vanity Fair and other news sources have cited multiple unnamed sources from within the US State Department claiming that three Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers supposedly in engaged in "gain of function" studies had fallen ill in November…
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Did China's Chang'e 5 land before November 30th 2020?
This video came out a couple hours ago (around UTC 9pm 2020-11-29), showing China already landed Chang'e 5. Is this video real? I find it hard to believe because I could not find sources confirming that it already landed.
Someone (Tau Shet Yoi) in…
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Did Pakistan supply an F-16 fighter jet to China for reverse engineering?
According to Bharat Karnad, in an opinion published in the Hindustan Times in 2017:
PAF long ago passed on an F-16 to China for its aircraft designers to study and to reverse engineer many of its technologies. So this plane is an open book for…
user42178
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Is the Chinese “Sesame Credit” system a government propaganda tool?
The Sesame Credit system recently announced in China is making the rounds on social media, being touted as a tool of gamified government thought control.
For example, this privateinternetaccess.com's article begins with the bold statement:
China…
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Does Apple install suicide prevention nets at their Chinese factories?
I had a discussion with a friend about the sometimes poor working conditions in China and especially the electronics market. Now what really surprised me was his statement that Apple and other companies installed "Nets to prevent suicide" around…
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Did Marco Polo travel to China?
I have been living in China now for nearly 5 years. One of the first books I bought when I first came was a copy of Marco Polo's Il Milione. It made interesting reading on one long train journey I took to Inner Mongolia. On the return journey I…
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