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Public Issues Beneath the Headlines | Sisyphus Express: In Depth
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Sisyphus Express: Why Must We Still Take Public Events Seriously? 1.1 Why Was Barbie Hsu’s Life Persistently Surrounded by Rumors? 1.2 Who Believes Rumors—and Why Do They Choose to Believe? 1.3 Why Is Debunking Rumors Harder Today Than Before? 1.4 Why Are Women More Likely to Become Targets of Rumors? 1.5 Why Have Rumors About Women Stayed the Same While the Times Changed? 1.6 Does Uncertainty Make Us More Likely to Believe Rumors? 1.7 Why Does Power Need Rumors? 2.1 Telegram: A Platform of ‘Freedom’ and a Breeding Ground for Crime? 2.2 From the Nth Room to Deepfakes: How Does Technology ‘Upgrade’ Sexual Crime? 2.3 From Doxxing to Telecom Fraud: How Does Personal Data Become a Tool of Crime? 2.4 Incels: How Does the Internet Create New Misogynist Cultures? 2.5 What Changes When the Internet Becomes an Environment for Living? 3.1 Why Can a Bride Price Ignite a National Debate? 3.2 The Money in Bride Price: How Many Accounts Must a Marriage Settle? 3.3 The Gift in Bride Price: Are We Talking About Money or Social Obligation? 3.4 Bride Price as a Mirror: What Does It Reveal About Chinese Society? 4.1 Why Do We Increasingly Distrust Elites? 4.2 Who Distributes Opportunity? State Policy, Education, and Social Stratification 4.3 Can a Disadvantaged Child Still Rise? Political Families, Educational Selection, and Class Entrenchment 4.4 Why Did the ‘Public Intellectual’ Disappear? Two Decades of the Elite Narrative 5.1 Why Is the Victim Repeatedly Put on Display in Reporting on Sexual Crime? 5.2 Why Is a Woman’s Body Made to Carry Collective Honor and Shame? 5.3 Why Is Marital Betrayal So Often Written as a War Between Women? 5.4 Revisiting the Wu Xieyu Case: Why Did Sex Disappear from the Explanation? 6.1 How Is a ‘God’ Manufactured? | The Providence Church 6.2 An Experiment in Utopia—or in Power? | Rajneesh and Other Movements 6.3 Who Produces Belief, and Who Needs It? 6.4 Why Are Mysticism, Wellness, and Diffuse Spirituality Growing More Popular? 7.1 From ‘Desire Written on Her Face’ to Venice Best Actress: How Far Has Xin Zhilei Come? 7.2 Eldest Daughters, Goddesses, Heroines, and Villainesses: How Does Film Imagine Women? 7.3 When Art Becomes Work, How Do Labor, Power, and Emotion Intertwine? 7.4 From the ‘Four Young Actresses’ to the ‘Post-85 Flowers’: What Manufactures Competition Between Actresses? 7.5 Beyond Winning Awards, How Else Can We Talk About Film Festivals? 8.1 What Exactly Is a Generic Drug? 8.2 How Did Generic Drugs Get Here? Three Paths in the United States, India, and China 8.3 When Drug Companies Falsify Data, Who Protects the Safety of a Pill? 8.4 What Realities Do Generic Drugs in China Face? Lessons from the Centralized Procurement Controversy 8.5 从药企利润到生命保障，药的价值该如何衡量？