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Helping China’s Elderly Catch Up With Our Information Age

BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China’s internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi’an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. “I am an old person! Can’t you see?” His attitude was so appalling that commentators online came down […]

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China’s Toilet Revolution To Punish Bad Bathroom Etiquette

BEIJING — It may be facing a major economic slowdown, a demographic crisis and widespread government corruption, but China has nevertheless found time to launch what we might call a “toilet revolution.” “Toilet civilization has a long way to go in China,” Li Shihong, deputy chief of the China National Tourism Administration (NTA), tells state […]

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