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I am from China, and I open this thread to answer anything related to China. :)

1/2 Chinese myself/nz born
and wish to know a couple of things,initially

your age please,if you dont mind
roughly please,either side is ok
i need to know,so i can tailor my questions,to possibly suit,your perspective,of your homeland

i visited china,when mao had just passed away

q's x2
do you think,/are you surprised at how much china has progressed,since his passing
and what would you attribute that to,primarily

thanks
likely more to come,as very interested
 
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Nice to meet you!

Just a couple curiosities, feel free to answer or ignore however you find fit:

1. What's the attitude towards sex like in China? Is it treated with shame, or is it just another fact of life - something that people and animals do and isn't moralized over? Or do views vary depending on region and age?

2. I've noticed a few Chinese sex toy companies are starting to branch out into the American market, Zalo being the main one that comes to mind. In fact, I've even heard China got the largest sex toy market in the world. Are sex toys stigmatized there?
 

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Social credit score is a mix of Western financial credit and Chinese style moral credit. It is being implemented in a city-level, so different city may have different systems. Currently, majority of the punishments are based on the bad financial credit, banning people from planes/trains/applying for new loans, etc. What worries me is the moral credit, because the criterial to be a well behaved Chinese citizen is explained by gov, for example playing too many video games decreases your moral credit is just ridiculous. Other things like not paying your phone bill in time, canceling your food delivery in the last minute, smoking in a non-smoking zone, these tiny things that sometimes do happen, but it doesn't mean you are a bad person morally. Good thing is that I have never heard of people getting punished because of these tiny things, but potentially they may happen in the future.
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@rbkwp Hi, nice to meet you! I was born in 1992 in Anhui province, a city close to Nanjing.
China really progressed a lot. I remembered a graph from social science class in middle school showing the GDP per capita in Asian countries. China was 1000 USD, while Japan was 40,000 USD. At first, I thought I miscounted the 0s. That was 40 times difference! I went to Beijing for uni in 2009 on a slow train, which takes 15 hours and now you can hop on a bullet train to get there within 4 hours. And many many new constructions every where in China.
 
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@AdonicAestheticism Hi, nice to meet you!
Sex is still a sensitive thing in China to talk about in families and schools. As a Chinese kid, you will never talk sex with your parents and vice versa. Porn is banned in China, and the sexual education is basically from biology class and your own research on the internet (speaking of my own teenagers time and now maybe there are more talks in middle schools).
Sex is closely related to morality and law, for example adultery (if your partner is serving in the army) and threesome (or more than 3 people) are criminal offenses.
Sex toy shops are everywhere and it is in online market as well, so I think it is pretty common for people to purchase them but you will not talk it with your family openly. :D
 
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thank you
younger brigade huh/cool
guess you missed all the dramas of your peppernuts

yes,i agree, and guess we have deng to thank for getting the all rolling

i/we dad and managed t get my 'sports neohew teacher to nz in the late 80s
he was bright enough t get his entre famiky over
wat we were hoping

i asked him several years ago,seeing that cna ies mre advanced than nz,woul he have preferred they stayed in china


no uncle,he said emphatically, I /we love nz too much

i lobve china, and think its there turn in our word
i a sck of the west rubbisyhin russa,now china
they have been the worst warmogers ever
 

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Your English is very good. Is Mandarin your first language? If so which dialect? How long have you studied English? Have you ever studied it in the US or another English-speaking country as a foreign student?

The reason I ask is that I've known several ESL teachers at university level who teach foreign students. Some of these instructors have taught English to high school students in China, Japan, Korea and other countries in advance of those students attending university here.

Were any of your English instructors visitors from the English-speaking world?
 

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@halcyondays Hi, thanks! My native language is a dialect of Mandarin, Lower Yangtze Mandarin. As the standard Mandarin was used in school, so I consider my first language is standard Mandarin. My dialect is poorly spoken while it is okay for me to understand it. I began to learn English from the 5th grade two decades ago as a compulsory curriculum till the end of university, and I reckon nowadays it is very normal for schools to teach English from the first grade, and even in kindergartens. I've never studied in an English-speaking country, but I was exposed to the English language speaking atmosphere, as I finished my B.A in a foreign studies university and I worked a year in a school for foreigners who study Chinese, where I practiced my English a lot. In the same school, there are Chinese who study English, so we have ESL teachers from the US, the UK. AFAI, they earn a decent salary and really enjoy the life living in China.
 
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I am from China, and I open this thread to answer anything related to China. :)
What is your opinion on spirituality and is the CCP censoring it?

China has a lot of native spiritual teachings like Taoism and Buddhism etc. but also foreign West Asian teachings like Christianity, Islam, or Central Asian like Hinduism etc. .

What does the state think about all of those?
i lobve china, and think its there turn in our word
i a sck of the west rubbisyhin russa,now china
they have been the worst warmogers ever

They did not have the strongest military force in the world. Countries only attack when they think they can conquer other countries without repercussions .

You see that Xi Jinpin defends the war in Ukraine, so they were right.

But I think Xi is angry himself at Putin, because nobody will trust him after he allied with the warmongerer in the future and his decisions could probably lead to a revolution in China and the end of the CCP.

In the same school, there are Chinese who study English, so we have ESL teachers from the US, the UK. AFAI, they earn a decent salary and really enjoy the life living in China.
If the media is censored they preselect those people that like China and censor the critics. That said I still think the most people like China, otherwise they would not go there. But it depends if the press is free or not.

Social credit score is a mix of Western financial credit and Chinese style moral credit.

Good thing is that I have never heard of people getting punished because of these tiny things, but potentially they may happen in the future.
That was similar in Germany (under Communism). You do not get the good jobs or have a chance to advance in the hierarchy of the state, but they do not say to you why.
But I think it is more important to have the right opinion on politics than to follow the other things.
 

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What is the difference between the PRC and the CCP? The rural areas of China from what I can see are controlled by gangs. I know Western society suffers from this as well. But it seems a great deal of corruption exists in the Communist party. On the top tier levels as well as those in remote regions.

Since the late 1980's the World Bank, sponsored mostly by Western governments, have loaned China trillions of dollars to undergo much needed infrastructure. Who carries out this work on the Chinese mainland?

If the CCP still adheres to the communist beliefs, why is it that many in the ruling CCP are Billionaires, when the majority of the Chinese nation are still living in regions of lawlessness and poverty, fear and intimidation?
 
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What is the difference between the PRC and the CCP?

dont mind adding my relatively non political thought there 70s
no real difference,according to the western nations
they tend to both'get about there business right or wrong,with minimum ridiculing of otther countries behaviours
and
much in the same vein that all in particular majpr warmongering western countries do,exactly the same,power hungry/showing there military might,continually making millions/billions off it,with a guise of global peacemakers

arbie
not condoning any war actions,but assuming the western nations have begun,perhaps more
stats anyone