Journalism is a pretty straightforward thing: you learn of something, research it, check your sources and report it in a simple-to-understand fashion. That is, when you are serious about it. If you are sloppy, however, you end up writing stuff like ‘Shocking!...

China is changing so rapidly that many unusual stories from that country are to be taken with a pinch of salt, as the “anything goes” attitude coming with its fast social evolution tends to mix fantasy and reality – sometimes with disastrous results. The following...