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The This Is China! blog has a good post discussing the loss of faith in life that China's younger generation is facing today.

The point is well illustrated when a young lady comments that she envies the generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution - maybe what they believed was wrong, but at least they had something to believe in.

Investment Expert & Author Jim Rogers (Co-founder of The Quantum Fund) touches upon key issues in China ranging from the stock market, the current real estate bubble, environmental issues and the growing trend of preparing the next generation for a globalized economy through Chinese language studies at a young age.

Ten months after they tied the knot, Li Lei and Wang Yang, decided it was time to break up so they could spend more time with their lovers.

China's phenomenal economic growth has created a generation of "emperors" and "empresses", the now-adult children of China's one-child policy, who often put their needs before anything and anyone else.

An Ethiopian rebel group said Tuesday it had launched an attack against a Chinese oil field. An official of the Chinese oil company involved had said 74 Chinese and Ethiopian workers were killed in the attack.

"No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste," the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday in a notice to the producers of "Happy Boys Voice," according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

And no fun at all, looks like. Then again, how much weirder can you get than a show called "Happy Boys Voice"?

A story (translated via ESWN) by a young girl who after saying goodbye at the train station to her friends stumbles into an eye-opening experience with China's poor.

Befriending an elderly woman collecting rubbish for the little money it provides, the girl helps her pick up bottles and any rubbish of value. The girl then helps the woman bring the garbage back to her small, impoverished community, in turn opening the girl to a side of her city she'd never dreamt still existed in the 21st century. A touching photojournal of the girl's journey.

Shang Wenjie's selection as China's "Super Girl" was reported on SINA.

Shang had no previous voice training but majored in French at Fudan University. She won China's version of "American Idol" by ...

Inside the 15th century Id Kah Mosque (Kashgar, Xinjiang, China) during salah, one of five compulsory daily prayers recited by Muslims to entreat Allah.

As seen in Tom Carter's CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author. Available now from Blacksmith Books.

During the Summer Olympics in August, the government lifted bans on some sites, such as the Chinese-language site of BBC News; it then reimposed the bans in recent weeks, affecting the BBC site and other sites such as the Chinese language versions of Voice of America and Asiaweek, before lifting them again last week.