Minitrue: No Public Comment on Rural Murder Case
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LatestProsperity, Stability, Control: Beijing’s Clashing Priorities
Economic growth and poverty reduction are two of the Chinese Communist Party’s core goals...
“Masters of the People”: China’s New Urban Poor
In Dissent Magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviews political scientists Dorothy Solinger and Mark...
“Idiotic” Chinese Name for Dementia Sparks Protest
As China faces a surge in dementia cases with weakened social support systems and only 300...
China To Invest Over $162 Billion On Shantytowns
Bloomberg reports that as part of renewed urbanization efforts to place more than 60 percent of...
For Some Rural Officials, Poverty Pays
A report from the South China Morning Post looks at central government efforts to alleviate rural...
Word of the Week: Poor Second Generation
贫二代 (pín èr dài): poor second generation Before China’s reform and opening up, communism had...
Rural School Kids Suffer Malnutrition
While childhood obesity expands in China’s cities, many children in impoverished rural areas still suffer from chronic malnutrition and hunger. Lan Fang and Wang Heyan at Caixin Online report that research into the problem...
Aging Chinese Face a Bleak Picture
After a pilot launched in 2008, research for the landmark China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) began in 2011 with support from Peking University, the National Science Foundation of China, and the World Bank....
Extreme Poverty in China Crashes Since 1981
While China’s severe income inequality has become an increasingly prominent issue in recent months, new estimates from the World Bank on extreme poverty around the globe (PDF) show another side to the country’s...
Three Self-Immolations Amid Crackdown, Debate
Three Tibetan self-immolations have taken place in recent days, according to exile media, amid vigorous discussion of the protests and a continued crackdown by Chinese authorities. From Dharamsala-based Phayul.com: Tsezung Kyab,...
Assuring Chinese Finish Their Live Lobster Sashimi
As the government and state media push a ‘Clean Plate Campaign’ and high-end restaurants suffer through a drought of official banquet reservations, Adam Minter examines cultural attitudes behind food waste in China....
Guizhou Journalist Sent on “Forced Vacation”
On November 15th, five brothers and cousins aged between nine and thirteen died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Guizhou dumpster, where they had lit a fire to keep warm. Their deaths prompted a frenzy of soul searching in both...
The Key to Bringing Democracy to China
At Foreign Policy, MIT’s Yasheng Huang suggests that the best way to promote democracy in China would be to stress elite self-interest over moral values. Huang also challenges the argument that asking China to democratise...
Photographs Capture a Disappearing China
With rapid and profound economic and social changes underway in China, many aspects of day-to-day life are being transformed. Several artists have recently made efforts to document the current way of life for Chinese families as...
For China’s ‘Left-Behind Kids,’ A Free Lunch
NPR’s Louisa Lim reports on journalist Deng Fei’s efforts to provide nutritious lunches for schoolchildren in China’s countryside. The children are caught on the wrong side of China’s wealth divide: most...
China to Raise Poverty Threshold
On Tuesday the central government announced that they would raise the rural poverty line from the 2009 per-capita threshold of 1,274 yuan (about $200) to 2,300 yuan (about $360, or just below $1 a day). This means that many more...
Photos: The "Rat Tribe" of Beijing
In air raid shelters and tunnels below Beijing, migrant workers, young graduates, and other workers who can’t afford Beijing’s steep housing costs have fashioned homes for themselves in spaces rented out by...
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