As Chinese college students return to campus after the Lunar New Year vacation, some may be fretting about their chances of finding a good job in a slowing economy. But those who speak Japanese or Uighur, have a “well-proportioned physique” and are not too shortsighted may be in luck: They could become state security agents. That is, provided the men are at least 5 feet 6 inches tall and the women 5 feet 2½ inches tall, and they are not colorblind, according to an advertisement on the career website of the East China Normal University seeking recruits to the Shanghai State Security Bureau. Read more
