"People now find their partners without very much direct supervision from their parents. If it's a bad relationship, or a bad marriage, people are much freer to leave and start again."

Deborah Davis, a sociology professor at Yale University, who studies contemporary Chinese society, in an interview with Yale's MacMillan Center on family and marriage issues in China

"It was a nightmare of pain that can never be cured."

Cen Honggui, an 89-year-old survivor of the Nanjing Massacre. China has identified 10 more living survivors of the 1937 massacre, sources with the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall confirmed on July 6

"Students undergoing cosmetic surgery should not be criticized, but any beauty without inner qualities is not true and excessive pursuit of beauty may lead to personality problems."

Feng Guilin, a researcher with Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, on July 4. Following the end of college entrance exams on June 8, plastic surgeons reported a staggering rise in the number of young people going under the knife, Changjiang Daily reported that day

"Although the best season to visit Xinjiang has arrived, tourist numbers have dropped around the region due to recent terrorist attacks."

Guli Ablim, Deputy Director of the Xinjiang Tourism Bureau, on July 8