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Quirky China: Woman ‘borrows police’ to see if husband cheating, a migrant-worker philosophy genius, students save the day

  • The woman who called the police on her husband was detained for making a false police report
  • A man asked for help getting a philosophy book translated, and became an internet celebrity

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A man was interupted by the police in his hotel, and a migrant worker goes viral for his philosophy studies in this week’s quirky stories from China. Photo: Handout
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A woman in China was detained for ‘borrowing the police’ to investigate if her husband having an affair.

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The woman called the police on her husband and lied that he had hired a sex worker.
When police officers arrived at the hotel in Shaoxing, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, they found the man, surnamed Wang, was the only person in the room, and there were no traces that a woman had been there, according to 163.com.

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Officers took the couple to the police station for further investigation and the wife, surnamed Li, said she made up the lie to get the police to check out what her husband was doing.

The couple had been quarrelling for years, and that evening Wang had told his wife they should separate before he checked into a hotel. Li tailed her husband to the hotel, and Wang refused to let her into the room. The receptionist refused to open the door for her.

That led Li to call the police on her husband and eventually landed herself in detention.

An existential question

A migrant worker shows off his philosophy studies, which he says is his life mission. Photo: Baidu
A migrant worker shows off his philosophy studies, which he says is his life mission. Photo: Baidu

A migrant worker in China is experiencing 15 minutes of fame after using social media for help finding a publisher willing to take his translation of an academic book about German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

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