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		<title>China&#8217;s Red Hackers: The Tale of One Patriotic Cyberwarrior</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Beech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a story in this week’s magazine, TIME profiles Wan Tao, once one of China’s most feared hongke, or red hackers, cyberwarriors motivated by patriotism to attack foreign digital victims. via China’s Red Hackers: The Tale of One Patriotic Cyberwarrior &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157019&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weibo Credit: Chinese Microblogging Site Tests Points-Based Censorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging site, has announced a new "user credit system" that could punish users who report "untrue information."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=134616&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Microblogs Ripe with Reports of Fruit-Scented iPhones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, people wanted to smell like brand-new Apple products. Now it appears brand-new Apple products smell like fruit. The Chinese Internet is ripe with reports of iPhone headphone jacks smelling like mangoes, pineapples and apples while charging.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=129616&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Axis of Suppression: China, Facebook and Iran, Says Google&#8217;s Sergey Brin</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/16/axis-of-suppression-china-facebook-and-iran-says-googles-sergey-brin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google might not exist today had dominant rivals like Facebook existed when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the search powerhouse, says Brin.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=128561&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Charged in China After Teen Trades Kidney for iPhone and iPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/06/five-charged-in-china-after-teens-sells-kidney-for-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five people in southern China have been charged for taking a 17-year-old boy's kidney in exchange for an iPad and an iPhone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=127447&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Rescuers Use iPhone to Save Little Boy from Well</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/03/watch-rescuers-use-iphone-to-save-little-boy-from-well/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/03/watch-rescuers-use-iphone-to-save-little-boy-from-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=126930&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China Welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Approves New iPad for Sale</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/27/china-welcomes-apple-ceo-tim-cook-approves-new-ipad-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The China Quality Certification Center has given the green light for Apple to sell the Wi-Fi version of its new iPad.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=126003&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CEOspotting: Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook Seen in China, but Why?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/26/ceospotting-apples-tim-cook-seen-in-china-but-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's play a game! It's called "spot the CEO traveling abroad, then speculate about what it means." In this instance, we're talking Apple CEO Tim Cook, reportedly spied by a blogger who snapped a casual picture of Cook as he strolled through an Apple Store in Xidan, Beijing last Friday.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=125656&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glitch Allows Chinese Citizens to Flood Obama&#8217;s Google+ Page with Comments</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/27/glitch-allows-chinese-citizens-to-flood-obamas-google-page-with-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do when the strict system of Internet censorship around you briefly breaks down? Take your grievances directly to the most powerful man in the world. A quick visit to Barack Obama's Google+ page reveals a flood of comments written in Chinese.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=120653&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Did Apple Really Pull the iPad from Amazon China?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/16/why-did-apple-really-pull-the-ipad-from-amazon-china/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/16/why-did-apple-really-pull-the-ipad-from-amazon-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=119310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The timing couldn't be worse: Amidst stories that Chinese officials are pulling Apple's iPad from select stores over trademark infringement, Apple's iPad unexpectedly vanished from Amazon China earlier this week.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=119310&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Apple iPad posters are seen at a dealership as a customer tries out an Apple Mac in Wuhan</media:title>
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		<title>Apple Stock Hits $500 as China ‘iPad’ Trademark Case Escalates</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/13/apple-stock-hits-500-as-china-ipad-trademark-case-escalates/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/13/apple-stock-hits-500-as-china-ipad-trademark-case-escalates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=118773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the good news: Apple shares briefly hit $500 Monday morning for the first time in its history — an impressive milestone and psychological threshold that underscores the incredible success of America’s largest technology company. Now, the bad news: Apple’s headaches in China continue, as authorities in the northern city of Shijiazhuang have reportedly confiscated dozens of iPads due to an escalating copyright dispute.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=118773&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the World Ever See Fair Trade iPads?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/27/will-the-world-ever-see-fair-trade-ipads/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/27/will-the-world-ever-see-fair-trade-ipads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=116108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that consumers don't really have a good option when it comes to buying "ethical" smartphones and tablets. Why is that? Why is there Fair Trade coffee but no Fair Trade electronics?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=116108&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A policeman looks out from a balcony as the crowd is dispersed from the front of an Apple store in Beijing</media:title>
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		<title>China Introduces RedPad: The $1,600 iPad Alternative for Party Officials</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/china-introduces-redpad-the-1600-ipad-alternative-for-party-officials/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/china-introduces-redpad-the-1600-ipad-alternative-for-party-officials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=115256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Officially, the RedPad is available to all Chinese citizens, although its 9,999 yuan (US$1,600) price tag has many of the country's microbloggers speculating that the Android-based tablet is primarily meant as a tax-subsidized tool for party officials.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=115256&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Reveals List of Suppliers for the First Time</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/13/apple-reveals-list-of-suppliers-for-the-first-time/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/13/apple-reveals-list-of-suppliers-for-the-first-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=114301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple just did something unprecedented: It released the names of all 150+ of its suppliers after several news stories — including a damning report from Chicago Public Radio's This American Life — painted an unflattering picture of how the company's suppliers treat their workers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=114301&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Cancels Beijing iPhone 4S Sales, Gets Egg on Store and Face</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/13/apple-cancels-beijing-iphone-4s-sales-gets-egg-on-store-and-face/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/13/apple-cancels-beijing-iphone-4s-sales-gets-egg-on-store-and-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=114203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to Apple: If there's any way you can avoid shuttering one of your flagship stores on the very day you launch a new iPhone, well, good luck with that when the store's in Beijing, your customers broke its glass door in a prior year scuffle and this year's iPhone-hungry contingent came armed with eggs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=114203&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A man yells at a security guard after the guard tried to remove a member of the crowd at the Apple store in the Beijing district of Sanlitun</media:title>
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		<title>Chinese Hackers Infiltrated U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Claims Report</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/21/chinese-hackers-infiltrated-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-claims-report/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/21/chinese-hackers-infiltrated-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-claims-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=111442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that hackers located in China managed to breach the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's information technology infrastructure.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=111442&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Is an iPad Not an iPad? When It&#8217;s Sold in China, Says Court</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/07/when-is-an-ipad-not-an-ipad-when-its-sold-in-china-says-court/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/07/when-is-an-ipad-not-an-ipad-when-its-sold-in-china-says-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=108873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPad: designed by Apple, assembled in China...and now divorced from its own name after falling on the losing side of a patent lawsuit brought against a company located in southern China.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108873&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A customer looks at an iPad 2 during the China launch at an Apple Store in central Beijing</media:title>
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		<title>Labor Unrest Hits Apple, Motorola Suppliers in China</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/07/labor-unrest-hits-apple-motorola-suppliers-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/07/labor-unrest-hits-apple-motorola-suppliers-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=108854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to growing economic unrest in China’s factory belt, dissatisfaction among workers has spread, leading to growing conflicts, unflinching demands and week-long protests that could begin to take their toll on electronics manufacturers like Apple and Motorola.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108854&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Workers on strike blocking the entrance gate of Hi-P International factory yell slogans during a protest in Shanghai</media:title>
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		<title>College Student Can&#8217;t Afford iPad for Girlfriend, Builds One Instead</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/29/college-student-cant-afford-ipad-for-girlfriend-builds-one-instead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<title>How Foxconn&#8217;s Million-Machine &#8216;Robot Kingdom&#8217; Will Change the Face of Manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/09/how-foxconns-million-machine-robot-kingdom-will-change-the-face-of-manufacturing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foxconn, pressured by the stresses of rising labor costs and negative media attention over employee suicides, could be reshaping the landscape of manufacturing forever. How? According to Focus Taiwan, the company recently announced it was building a $223 million &#8220;robot kingdom&#8221; in the Central Taiwan Science Park in the Taiwanese city of Taichung. The research and development center and manufacturing hub is part of chairman Terry Gou&#8217;s ambitious plan to build one million industrial robots. Let&#8217;s put that in perspective; according to a September report by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the world is on track to reach 1.3 million operating industrial robots by 2014. That means that if Foxconn&#8217;s parent company, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., reaches its goals, it would effectively double the number of industrial robots worldwide. (PHOTOS: Portraits of Chinese Workers) Foxconn, one of Apple&#8217;s biggest suppliers, has a number of good reasons to go the robot route. First, there are the suicides; at least 17 people have killed themselves at Foxconn factories over the last half-decade, according to a special report from Wired. Foxconn&#8217;s initial responses seemed a bit crass; first it looked to stop people from jumping off buildings by putting up nets, then it reportedly made workers sign pledges stating that they wouldn&#8217;t commit suicide. Nearly half of Foxconn&#8217;s one-million workers are located in the company&#8217;s massive campus in Shenzhen. While it&#8217;s not the Ritz, it isn&#8217;t exactly a Dickensian nightmare either; workers have access to clean dormitories and amenities like coffee shops. Still, life at the Shenzhen plant can be tough. An undercover report from Southern Weekend reporter Liu Zhiyi described a world of monotonous work under bright lights, 10-hour work days before overtime (which, thanks to voluntary overtime affidavits, can exceed 36 hours per month) and strict, unceasing supervision. It can also be lonely; earlier, TIME reported on the high employee turnover that makes social connections for migrant workers, already separated from their families, extremely difficult, even in cramped quarters. Unsurprisingly, many of China&#8217;s newly-educated young people don&#8217;t want jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102168&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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