Despite Paralympic Pride, Disabled Face Stigma
China, which has topped the medal counts at each of the previous four Summer Paralympic Games,...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 3, 2016
China, which has topped the medal counts at each of the previous four Summer Paralympic Games,...
by Josh Rudolph | May 19, 2016
Medical science’s recent development of the prenatal detection of Down syndrome has sparked...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 20, 2014
Following the news last week of an obstetrician’s suspended death sentence for child...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 13, 2014
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish talks to legal activist Chen Guangcheng about his...
by Scott Greene | Aug 8, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 11, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Jun 18, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Apr 26, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Apr 24, 2013
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...
by Melissa M. Chan | Mar 17, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Mar 5, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 27, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Jun 25, 2012
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...
by Wendy Qian | Jun 21, 2012
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...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 20, 2012
Via CarrotNet: On June 16 at 4 p.m., the F exit to the Great Theater subway stop in Shenzhen was...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 19, 2012
Yang Zhizhu, associate professor of law at China Youth University of Political Science, published...
by Wendy Qian | Jun 17, 2012
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,...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 15, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...