#Student punches teacher at Fudan University Graduation Ceremony. Fudan University of Law responds that they are investigating into this case. The video spread around the internet shows that at the graduation ceremony, a male student walks straight up to the teacher in the second right position, punches him in the head, and quickly leaves. The teacher’s glasses and hat fell off. The teacher next to him jumped back in shock. After everyone took a moment to straighten things up, the ceremony continued as normal.
Comments say, “Ah, this is the mental state of uni students.”
“Is he still allowed to graduate like this?”
“Took a closer look, and this is a university of law? I guess he’s gonna try to put what he learned into practice now that he’s graduated.”
A Korean netizen asks, “Are there good places to go in China for mountain climbing? Looking for recommendations.”
Comments say, “Do you really need all that gear for 600 metres? I could climb that in high heels.”
“My ancestors are buried on a higher hill than 600 metres.”
“Do you really need a backpack for this?”
“Go, pikachu!“
“We don’t usually bother to mark this kind of height.”
“I’ve never seen a 634 metre tall mountain. It sounds so cute~”
“Shandong has a Mount Jing that’s really great for Koreans!” [A mountain that went viral for being only 0.6 metres tall.]
“At 634 metres, you won’t even have reached the ticketing counter in China.”
“There’s not that many mountains in China. We’ve only got a couple hundred.”
“I don’t recommend it. Don’t come to China, because you’ll get too envious, and you can’t steal mountains.”
“A couple of legal facts you might not know!
If you’re a worker suing your company, the legal fees are only 10 RMB.
If you’re an intern, you only need to give 3 days notice before leaving a company. You don’t need to file an application or get permission from your boss.
If you’re a proper employee, you just need to give 30 days notice before leaving a company. Note, it’s a notice, not a request.
Even if you’ve only worked one day at a place, they still need to pay you. A lot of companies have policies that say they won’t pay you if you quit within a week of working there, and a lot of people believe them.
A lot of bosses like to talk their employees into quitting instead of firing them, because they have to pay the employee a lot of money to fire them, and it’s very risky. But if the employee quits themselves, then there’s no legal risk and they don’t need to pay extra money.
If you have a labour dispute, go to arbitration first. After working for years, a lot of people still don’t know where to go to sue their boss. Remember, if you have a labour dispute, go to arbitration first. The Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee will deal with it.
Labour arbitration is free. Absolutely free.
You don’t have to hire a lawyer to sue someone. Don’t laugh. A lot of people don’t know this! (But, if you’re actually going to sue someone, I still recommend you get a lawyer.)
Daughters who married out still have the right to inherit the land and housing their parents leave behind. It’s not just the boys who split it. Even if you’ve been married for decades, you still have a right to inherit from your dad.
If someone slaps you in the face, and you slap them back, that is not self defense, that is brawling.
It’s illegal for husbands to demand that their wives make dinner as soon as they come home from work. Marriage law dictates that both husband and wife have the freedom to socialise.
If women are suing for divorce, they’ll almost always fail at least once. Only your second attempt to sue has a chance to be successful. Because a lot of judges think that it’s better to demolish a temple than to ruin a marriage.
It’s illegal for restaurants and hotels to forbid you from bringing your own drinks. This is denying us one of our fundamental rights. You can report them to 12315. [A hotline for consumer rights protection.]
You can’t get back your deposits [定金], but you can get back your down payments [订金]. They’re very similar words, but you gotta pay attention. But if they take your deposit and never fulfil their end of the contract, you can probably still get it back under some circumstances.
Fining you 10 times the value of whatever you stole is not a policy shops are allowed to enforce. It puts too much of a burden of responsibility on the customers.
Paying 10 times the value of any goods that turn out to be knockoffs is a valid policy. A lot of shops will hang these signs up to convince customers that all their products are real, but unlike the policy above, this is enforced by the law. If you find something that’s fake, you can demand they pay you 10 times.
If someone slanders you, even if it completely ruins your life, so long as you don’t defend your own rights, then no one can help you, because only the actual party affected by pursue slander cases.
You don’t need to pay back gambling debts. If you do pay it back, there’s no way to get your money back, but any debts you incur by gambling is illegal, and no courts will uphold it.
Cutting off someone’s thumb is a major injury. Cutting off someone’s pinky is a light injury. [With very different sentencing amounts.]
If you lose a court case, you have to go to prison? Who did you hear that from? There are three types of court cases: criminal trial, civil trial, and administrative trial. You only need to go to prison if you lose a criminal trial. It doesn’t matter if you lose the other two.
You can’t sell whatever you want. For example, a lot of people have been imprisoned for selling face masks (you need a license and a permit for sale).
The age at which you’re responsible for your purchases is 8-years-old. If you send your 5-year-old to the store to pick up some soy sauce and he gets the wrong kind, you can just go to the store and say your kid was only five, and his purchase won’t count.
Beating your spouse’s paramour is illegal. Even if the paramour is a total asshole, you still can’t beat them. You gotta let the cops handle it. Have some control over yourself—it’s not worth it to go to jail over this.
You can get 1000 RMB if you buy expired food. What should you do if you accidentally bought some expired food at the supermarket? Don’t look so sad! You’ve made a lot of money! The store needs to pay you 1000 RMB at a minimum, even if you’d just got 10 cents worth of candy!
You can’t traffic grown adult men. “Human trafficking” is a crime that only applies to women and children.
You can’t report someone missing for at least 24 hours? There’s no such rule. If kids or old people go missing, you should contact the police as soon as possible!”
Comments say, “So, if someone is beating me to death, and I slap them in the face, is it self defense?”
“Legal facts you might not know: 1. Labour laws mean nothing. 2. If you keep talking about laws, you’re gonna make me laugh.” [A line from an old documentary interviewing a corrupt official which has become a long-running internet shorthand for how laws don’t matter in China.]
“1. If you have rural hukou, you can apply for free representation. 2. You can report your company for not paying your social security or 401K during arbitration. 3. If the company’s actual location and their registered location doesn’t match, you can also report that. 5. You can also report your company for fire safety issues (not enough extinguishers, expired extinguishers). 5. If you’re leaving your job, don’t sign anything, don’t let them scare you. Labour arbitration really works!”
#The first batch of Xiaomi car owners are selling their cars now. Zeng Wei, who makes 6000 RMB per month and has 3600 RMB of car payments every month, has listed his brand new Xiaomi SU7 on a secondhand website.
As a fan of Xiaomi, Zengwei unhesitatingly chose Xiaomi SU7 as his first car. As one of the very first batch of owners at the end of April, when he first received the car, he practically wanted to live in it every day. But after only driving it for 2600 km, Zengwei was forced to reluctantly sell his car for the original price because of the dual pressures of rent and car payments.
Just like Zeng Wei, Beijing car owner Meng Jing has also listed his Xiaomi SU7 Max Dusk Purple on a secondhand website for 328K RMB.
After buying a Xiaomi SU7 because “his daughter liked it”, Zeng Jing only just got new plates in May and had driven his car for less than 3000 km, before he decided that Xiaomi didn’t function as a family car. It’s not a very comfortable fit for him at 190cm. “I always bump my head when getting into the driver’s seat. So I was better off selling it now when the prices are still high and buying a bigger car, like a Toyota Prado, or a Huawei Aito M9.”
Since he only bought the basic setup, Zengwei only got offers from secondhand car dealers, and was forced to eventually sell his car for 9000 less than he hoped for. Meng Jing had gotten the best attachments possible and had a hot-selling colour as backup, his mailbox has been flooded with messages. There was even a shopping mall willing to rent his car for 1000 RMB per day as a display for their lobby.
While the first batch of car owners are already thinking about selling their car, even more people are stuck in the long waiting periods. Lately, the hashtag “#Xiaomi car sales continues to drop” has climbed onto the trending topics. There are media reports that after selling 2700 cars a week at its highest point, Xiaomi’s sales has fallen from 2192 per week to 2100 per week in just June. Most of the reasons seems to point towards Xiaomi’s production issues.
In the comment section under the trending hashtag, there are countless future owners demanding why their car still hasn’t been delivered. In response to this, Xiaomi has announced that their sales are still steadily climbing. Up until the 13th of June, ‘Xiaomi has delivered over 20,000 cars. They promise to deliver at least 10K cars this year, hopefully 12K.
Faced with 6 month wait times, there are future car owners who won’t get their cars until the end of 2024, or even until 2025. And on the other hand, there are current car owners who are desperate to sell their cars after owning it for less than a month. All Xiaomi car owners are under a lot of stress for different reasons.”
Comments say, “Honestly, this seems like such a hater post. You make it sound like people are selling the cars for quality issues, but if you read the details, it’s all personal complaints.”
“Other cars lose at least 20% of their value once you’ve driven them for 3000km, but you can sell a Xiaomi at only a 9000 RMB loss.”
“Don’t worry, it’s only just starting.”
“Help! My advisor accidentally texted his complaints about me to me.
I’ve been talking to my advisor a lot about the topic of my thesis, and he responded super politely and gave me a lot of useful suggestions, and then!!! He accidentally sent me the screenshots of our conversation! Including his complaints about me!! He still hasn’t realised he texted the wrong person, so he can’t delete the messages anymore, and I haven’t responded yet either.
I want to die. If I respond, I make him look really rude. But if I don’t respond, I look really rude.
What the fuck do I dooooo.”
[OP shows screenshots of the texts, where after his conversation with his advisor, the advisor sends a screenshot of the conversation along with a, “This one has no idea what he’s doing.”, clearly thinking he was complaining to a friend/colleague.]
“Respond: Those who dare to criticise me to my face should be richly rewarded.” [A famous line from King Wei of Qi, from the Warring States Era.]
“Set yourself an alarm for 3:37AM and text your professor then, “I’m so sorry, I’ll work harder.” Let him stay up all night tomorrow with guilt.”
“It’s okay. He’s the one at fault. Just respond, “Thanks, teacher,” and let him go feel guilty.”
“Screenshot your texts too and send it to him, and text him, “My professor sent his complaints about me to me.””
#Woman buys the same clothes twice and gets a refund once it’s dirty. A netizen posted a video in Zhejiang claiming that a woman buying the same shirt in the same size and the same colour from his store, wearing it until it gets dirty, and then getting a full refund. The original poster, Mrs. Fan, claims that she only discovered this while scanning her returns this morning. Said customer has bought from her three times now, and gotten two refunds. Her third purchase was only mailed last night. Both the returned shirts were dirty, with the collar covered in foundation, but the customer won’t respond to communication.
“A useless cool fact! People’s ashes can be different colours!
A healthy person might leave behind white or milky white ashes.
A cancer patient who’s went through a lot of chemo might have red ashes.
If you took a lot of medicine with phosphorous in it, you might leave pink ashes.
If you were poisoned, it might be green or yellow. If it’s very strong poison, it might be black.
The actual colour depends on what kind of drugs you were own, the dosage, your reaction to it, it’s different for everyone.”
A compilation of comments:
“So, chug a bottle of radium water before you die, and you can have rainbow ashes for a thousand years?”
“But who can refuse having a pink skeleton?”
“You can pick a skin for yourself before you die?”
“Can I check out a sample of my ashes before I die? If I don’t like the colour, I might change my mind.”
“Can it be blue? Because I’ve been walking on thin ice my whole life.”
“I want Morandi colours. What should I eat? I wanna get prepared beforehand.”
“So my mom would be pink and my dad would be green.”
“But, to be fair, I’m really drawn by the pink option.”
“How can you see what your ashes will look like while you’re still alive? Like, if I cut off a bit of myself and burn it, can I tell if I’m healthy by the colour of the ashes that come out?”
“Guys. This doesn’t need to be this complicated. We can just add colouring afterwards.”
“I want to be pink, but I don’t wanna get sick.”
“If I drink milk every day, will my ashes smell like milk?”
“Gotta eat some phosphorous before I die. I love pink.”
“Can you eat some phosphorous on your deathbed? Will it work quick enough?”
“I’m happy with white. When I get turned into ashes, I can be my best friend’s face powder. I can’t bring her good fortune, but I can make sure her makeup stays on all day long.”
“Wait a minute. If obesity makes you red, doesn’t chubbiness make you pink?”
“I want my idol’s support colours, thanks.” [The colour of neon sticks you should bring to an idol’s concert.]
“Newest wish: get purple bones without having to suffer for it.”
“Can’t believe we still need to involute after death.”
“Cool fact: If you eat enough radium before you die, your ashes will be neon.”
“It’s pretty normal for Jiang Ping to go viral. Her achievements have completely upended people’s stereotypes about “technical college students.” And any sufficiently famous person is bound to get controversial, so it’s not surprising at all that she’s come under a lot of scrutiny. I hope this young girl is strong enough.
I don’t have any maths capabilities at all and can’t determine whether or not it’s believable that Jiang Ping’s teachers helped her cheat. But based on my experience of life, I can’t imagine a 17-year-old girl involving her teachers in such an enormous scam. Even if a grown adult teacher might be tempted by his selfish greed, would she go along with it? Would she be able to put on such a convincing performance? She doesn’t just need exceptional acting skills, but extraordinary willpower too, because normal people involved in such a big scheme would mess up right away. I’m not talking about tiny little clues that a bunch of armchair experts have to use magnifying glasses to find.
Maybe I’m just not inclined to think badly of people. I think we have to acknowledge the possibility that a bunch of people have made a simple thing complicated. They used the greed and machinations of an adult to model a naive teenage girl.
Some people might say, “Hey, why are you so eager to defend Jiang Ping?” I have to clarify, that I’m not defending Jiang Ping. Like I said, I can’t really tell whether the doubts aimed at her are truthful or believable. I’m just coming at this from a human point of view, and I’d rather believe that Jiang Ping is the real deal. My words can’t be evidence at all in this case, I’m just providing my perspective.
I have to admit, that my wish is for everyone’s dreams to come true. So when a normal person gets a lucky break, I want to believe that opportunity is real, that we’re not celebrating over nothing.
If there are people who are jealous of her, or people who feel the need to hog the spotlight by voicing doubts, I think that’s all pretty normal for public discourse. And if this really is all faked, then it’ll be the scandal of the century. Don’t say that we’ll never know if it’s true or fake. Like I said, this kind of scheme can’t last forever. If her accusers continue to not be able to provide any actual proof, then we have to face the next biggest possibility: their accusations might have been all made up.”
Comments say, “She’s just a genius. Envy is turning a lot of people ugly.”
“Sometimes, just simply believing in someone is a really beautiful thing. Thinking there’s a conspiracy behind everything is super tiring.”
“Faking maths prowess is, like, super hard though.”
#State department responds to Chinese athletes testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The State Department spokesperson, Lin Jian, conducted a press release, where Faxin Reporter asked, “China is sending 11 swimmer to the Paris Olympics next month, and these athletes collectively tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The United States Anti-Doping Agency has criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency for not publicising this issue, who subsequently announced they’ll be sending a team of experts to China to investigate this issue. Can you provide any latest news about these experts visiting China?”
Lin Jian expressed that, “We’ve already responded to this question before. I need to emphasise that the Chinese government has always maintained a zero tolerance policy on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs. We strictly abide by the World Anti-Doping Policy, and adamantly protect our athlete’s physical and mental health, protect the fairness of sports competitions, and contribute whatever we can towards the global fight against performance-enhancing drugs.”
Comments say, “All of them??????”
“I gotta wonder if our competitors pulled some dirty tricks. How could they all be positive?”
“If it was every single one of them, then it feels like our athletes were specifically targetted. I don’t believe for a second they were all guilty. They probably got discriminated against. What fridge horror. America’s shadow is behind everything.”
> You don’t need to go to prison if you lose a criminal trial.
should that be "You only need to go to prison [...]"?
The post on Chinese laws was super interesting! Thanks for translating