Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
In this post from WeChat public account 兽楼处, a man gives a first-person account of his family’s experience in quarantine following a potential COVID exposure at a shopping mall in Beijing. In addition to describing the food,...
Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Chinese homebuyers have banded together and refused to continue paying mortgages on unfinished homes. Homebuyers in China frequently purchase “pre-sale” homes long before developers...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...
Joe Sharkey at The New York Times reports that though there isn’t a solid infrastructure to...
Xinhua reports that a top auditor in China found that 5.8 billion yuan (US$943 million) for low-income housing had been embezzled in the past year: The goal of the project construction was reached as governmentshave allocated...
The recent boom in Hong Kong housing prices led to the discontent and frustration of many families. The government now plans to make thousands of homes available to lower income families by reinstating a revision of a housing...
As Mickey Mouse and Hello Kitty prepare to fight for visitors outside Shanghai, plans for a Communist Party theme park in Chongqing have fallen apart. From China Daily: The park, which was planned to occupy more than 128...
The Los Angeles Times reports on new government efforts to provide housing for china’s low-income residents who can’t buy into the skyrocketing housing market: Soaring real estate prices are driving China’s...
Southern Weekend covers the bedspace apartments, or cage homes, in Hong Kong. Translated by CDT: In the summer of 2009, the air was heavy. Only the creaking of the fan could be heard. The sour stench of urine mixed with the...
Like many countries, China faces the demographic issue of an increasing aging population that is living longer. 11% of the Chinese population (153 million people) are age 60 or over, and this demographic is expected to increase...
From Economic Observer Online: In the post-Olympic era, a wave of price cuts for real estate appeared to have swept across major cities in China, which earlier this year was still a property hotspot. Property developers in...
From Xinhua: A Chinese scholar from one of China’s most prestigious universities claimed slums should be allowed to exist in China’s big cities to provide shelters for the urban poor. “It is no shame for big...
From China Daily: National guidelines on economically affordable housing were released on Friday night along with new State measures on housing for low-income families, which come into effect on Saturday. Economically affordable houses ought to be around 60 sq m per unit, said the guidelines jointly released by the Ministry of Construction, the National Development […]
Chinese are a hard working people. But faced with skyrocketing housing prices, Chinese also have to think hard how to live cheap, such as refugee-like group rentals (Áæ§Áßü) in Shanghai. Translated from Guangzhou Daily: In Shanghai, the average new-apartment price has gone up from 8,818 yuan per square meter in August 2006 to 10,280 yuan […]
Amidst China’s rush to modernity, some hidden neighborhoods in Shanghai, yet untouched by urbanization, embody a sense of history and nostalgia. From theshanghaieye via Flickr: Ever wonder why most Chinese don’t have any concept of personal space? The answer to this riddle is hidden at home. Take a peek at one of the numerous Longtangs […]
From Cool Hunting blog: Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate, is composed of 100 rooms, each closet-like in size at only 100 square feet and built in response to a devastating fire in the 1950s that left thousands homeless. In a new series of photographs called “100 x 100,” Michael Wolf […]
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