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Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?

Chinese Whispers

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The Long Gown of Khoinidi

Lu Xun wrote the story about Khoinidi, a penniless man who refuses to take off his scholars gown. He was trying to make people aware of the situation at that time when China's education system was failing many young people. Now they say, oh, well, this is exactly what we are facing now," he says. "If you graduate from university in China, that used to be something that was so rare"

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