In Cities and Villages, Children Are Getting Left Behind
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
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LatestEducation Gap Remains After Hukou, Gaokao Reforms
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform...
China’s Education Gap
In the New York Times, Helen Gao writes about the inequalities in China’s education system,...
A Migrant Mother’s Poem: “My Child, I Am Sorry”
As the school year begins in China, the children of migrant workers face a harsh reality: without...
Foreign NGO For Migrant Children Thrives in China
Following a pair of recent articles on China’s cautious accommodation of independent...
China’s Linguistic Landscape is Changing Rapidly
PRI’s The World reports on the growth of Mandarin as a common language in China, as...
Migrants Now Account for One Sixth of Population
According to a newly released government report [zh], China’s “floating...
Guilin School Blast Linked to Migrant Worker
The explosion at a school in Guilin has now been linked to a migrant worker who was in a dispute...
The Migrant on the Street of Eternal Happiness
Since Deng Xiaoping began the policy of economic reform and opening-up, Chinese migrant workers have become the biggest labour force in whole world. Zhao Shilin, now the owner of a flower shop on the Street of Eternal Happiness...
Young Migrants Ambivalent About City Life
Young migrant workers struggle to adapt to life in China’s cities according to a new survey, which reports that only 6% are either “relatively” or “very well” adapted. Common problems among...
Beijing: Constant Nightmare, China's Most Liveable City, or Capital of the Future?
An ongoing series at The Economist’s More Intelligent Life site searches for a new global capital, with a particular focus on London, New York, Washington DC, Beijing, Delhi and Singapore. As noted in ‘Beijing:...
China Takes Aim at Rural Influx
The New York Times notes the razing of some 30 schools for migrant workers’ children in Beijing over the summer, affecting over 30,000 students. The demolitions, justified by the government on health and safety grounds,...
Yu Jianrong on Closing of Migrant Schools
China Media Project has translates an online chat conducted with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Professor Yu Jianrong about the recent closures of schools for the children of migrant workers: Over the past six months, more...
Migrant School Demolished, Parents Furious
Caixin presents a photo gallery showing the site of a school for migrant workers in Beijing, which was suddenly demolished on Monday: Parents of migrant students were dismayed to find that over ten of the school’s...
Photo: A school for migrant children, by Philip McMaster
A school for migrant children, by Philip McMaster
Video: Zanta!
Zanta! is a documentary film by journalist Jocelyn Ford which follows the lives of widowed Tibetan street hawker Zanta and her seven-year-old son, whom she brought to Beijing so he could get an education. The film is in...
Building China’s Backbone: Dandelion School for Migrant Worker Kids
Beijing Kids Magazine has a short profile of Dandelion School for the children of migrant workers in Beijing: Gongyi Xiqiao is a frontier outpost on Beijing’s southern fringe, a cluster of highrise apartment blocks grouped...
Numbers of Illiterate Chinese Increased Dramatically to 116million
From CNN News:
The number of people in China who can’t read has shot up to 116 million, wiping out years of hard-won gains against illiteracy as rural poor leave the farm and school
