4th year Asian Studies major at UC Berkeley with a focus on China and Political Science. Particularly interested in gender construction, political dissent, nationalism, and socioeconomic polarization in the PRC. Likes to run, fence, and otherwise work out. Loves to eat.
Oiwan Lam at GlobalVoices has posted translations of the results of a search of Chinese cyberspace for information on the Longnan riots. The violent clash between protesters and police was reportedly triggered by municipal...
Read MoreArzigul Tursun of China’s largely Muslim Uighur minority faces a forced abortion 26 weeks into her pregnancy. From Radio Free Asia: Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in...
Read MoreCDT reported previously that a Chinese delegation would appear before the U.N. Committee Against Torture to face questions about the country’s alleged abuse of prisoners. Chinese officials appearing before the panel have...
Read MoreReflections in a Chinese Eye has two rich posts about the state of migrant workers in China’s urban centers today. The first, entitled ‘Systematic Government Theft of Migrant Workers’ Retirement...
Read MoreThe political fallout from the March anti-Chinese Tibetan unrest continues. Jigme, a Tibetan monk who was taken into police custody on suspicion of involvement in the Lhasa riots, has been in hiding since speaking out on the...
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