Translation: Two Families Shattered by a “Patriotic” Youth
This spring, while nationalist fervor to “support Xinjiang cotton” swelled online, voices in China calling to “support Xinjiang people”—fellow Chinese citizens targeted by China’s...
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996, Academic Pressure, Sky High Rents. China’s College Grads Ask: Is There More to It Than This?
According to census figures released this week, China’s population is more educated than ever. More than 15% of the recorded population had completed tertiary education, a 9% jump from just a decade earlier. But for...
In Great Hall of The People, “Complete Victory.” In the Countryside, a More Complicated Story
In late 2020, China declared victory over poverty, marking the end of a five-year campaign to raise rural incomes above $600 per year. In the essay “The Countryside Through A Daughter In-Law’s Eyes,” though, Huang Deng wrote...
Chinese Countryside Better Off Than Ever Before, While Some Reforms Stagnate
In early December, President Xi Jinping declared that China had eliminated absolute poverty. His announcement was the culmination of a years-long campaign that sought to raise the annual income of every person in China’s...
Translation: The Countryside Through a Daughter-in-law’s Eyes
The following essay was written by Huang Deng, an educated 46-year-old woman who married into a poor rural family. A PhD and currently the Deputy Director of Finance and Media at Guangdong University of Finance, Huang is also...
Minitrue Diary, March 2, 2020: COVID Patient’s Travel to Beijing, South Korea, Poverty Alleviation
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
Workers Sent Back To Countryside In Poverty Alleviation Drive
China has declared it will eliminate absolute poverty—defined as making under 4,000 yuan ($600) annually—by the end of this year. Towards that goal, China is enacting a new policy with a familiar ring: sending workers down to...
Minitrue: No Public Comment on Rural Murder Case
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Prosperity, 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,...
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