Despite Paralympic Pride, Disabled Face Stigma
China, which has topped the medal counts at each of the previous four Summer Paralympic Games,...
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What’s on Weibo: China and the End of Down Syndrome
Medical science’s recent development of the prenatal detection of Down syndrome has sparked...
Sex-Selective Abortion Gang Broken Up
Following the news last week of an obstetrician’s suspended death sentence for child...
Chen Guangcheng: Lost in America
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish talks to legal activist Chen Guangcheng about his...
Hunan Officials to Probe Forced Abortion Complaint
The Global Times reports that the local government of Lianyuan, in Hunan Province, has opened an investigation into an alleged forced abortion in 2011 after the husband claimed that his wife became mentally ill following the...
After Epic Escape, Chen Guangcheng Mired in Partisan U.S.
Following heated controversy last month over legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University, The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports a tangled political “tug of war over Mr. Chen and his...
Chen Guangcheng, NYU and Academic Freedom
Chen Guangcheng says that New York University asked him to leave because of pressure from Chinese authorities, but the university denies those claims. The dispute over his departure has nevertheless “added fuel to concerns...
The Children of China
Jiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...
Rejecting the “Leftover Women” Label
As the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women”, a term used to describe unmarried women in their...
More Than 300M Abortions Under One-Child Policy
Amid the reorganization of the agency that oversees the one-child policy, some critics are questioning whether the policy will be relaxed or eliminated completely. Due to the enforcement of the one-child policy, China has...
China’s Biggest Problem? Too Many Men
Rob Brooks, professor of evolution at New South Wales University in Australia, looks to the surplus of men over women in China as a potential threat to social stability. From CNN: A long history of son preference, particularly...
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in...
Forced Abortion Victim and Family Branded Traitors
The recent controversy over forced abortions, which grew after officials in Shaanxi province forced a woman to abort her 7-month old fetus and graphic photos surfaced online two weeks ago, has reportedly grown uglier. The South...
Catchy Family Planning Slogans
Offbeat China translates many harsh family planning slogans from rural areas, which were collected by Netease. The family planning policy, better known as the one-child policy, has been set as China’s basic state policy since...
A Woman Devoted to Harmony
Via CarrotNet: On June 16 at 4 p.m., the F exit to the Great Theater subway stop in Shenzhen was...
How Many Fetuses Killed in 40 Years?
Yang Zhizhu, associate professor of law at China Youth University of Political Science, published...
One-child Policy Leads to Forced Abortions
Graphic photos from Shaanxi province of grieving mother Feng Jianmei and her almost full-term aborted fetus went viral last week and reignited a discussion on abortion among Chinese netizens. Some commenters called the incident,...
Directives from the Ministry of Truth (Update)
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
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