Friends Like These: Chen Guangcheng in America
It has now been a year and a half since legal activist Chen Guangcheng staged his dramatic escape...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 25, 2013
It has now been a year and a half since legal activist Chen Guangcheng staged his dramatic escape...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 21, 2013
A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 9, 2013
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt talks to rights lawyer Teng Biao about his political...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 1, 2013
Exiled activist Chen Guangcheng has announced that he will become a fellow at the Witherspoon...
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 Cindy | May 8, 2013
More than 30 years have gone by since the introduction of China’s one-child policy in response to the Mao-era population boom. At The Guardian, author Ma Jian condemns the policy’s corrosive social effects, and the...
by Josh Rudolph | May 5, 2013
Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about his career, Beijing’s longstanding ban on his work, the value of free expression, the legacy of...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 30, 2013
For her series, China Past Due, on PRI’s The World, Mary Kay Magistad looks at the debate over the one-child policy, as many people think the government should end the policy which has been prone to abuse in its 30 year...
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 Samuel Wade | Sep 25, 2012
Stories of Chinese mothers travelling to the U.S. to give birth have become familiar. Global Times’ Xuyang Jingjing, though, describes a growing trend of Chinese couples seeking American surrogate mothers. The...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 22, 2012
Following the gory case of Feng Jianmei, whose fetus was forcibly aborted at seven months, scholars and netizens are publicly questioning China’s family planning policies. The New York Times reports: Recent reports of...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 11, 2012
A Shaanxi local government has reached a 70,600 yuan settlement with Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, who were illegally forced to have a late-term abortion when they were unable to pay a similarly illegal 40,000 yuan...
by Wendy Qian | Jun 27, 2012
Ian Johnson interviews dissident Chen Guangcheng in a New York University classroom. Continuing the transcript style of his Bao Tong interview, Johnson asks Chen many probing questions, from China’s incoming leadership to...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 27, 2012
Local officials involved in the gruesome forced abortion case in Shaanxi have been punished, including the head of family planning in the county, who was dismissed. The Los Angeles Times reports: The scandal erupted this month...
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 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 Sophie Beach | Jun 17, 2012
For his latest contribution to his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts two recent news events: a forced abortion in Shaanxi Province, and the launch of a manned space mission including the first Chinese woman...