Are cadres the answer to China’s property market crunch? Some local officials seem to believe so. Hundreds of thousands of homebuyers across China have boycotted their mortgages payments in protest against the stalled...
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...
Evergrande offices across China have been beset by protesting retail investors and homeowners concerned that the real estate giant is on the verge of bankruptcy. The company is facing a liquidity crisis and may default on its...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Authorities in Shanghai have recently cracked down on rumors of tightening real estate...
China’s rulers are keen to showcase their efforts to give the people a say in government...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
On her blog China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her book...
After years of stunning growth, China’s real estate market is slowing down. In response to...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Leta Hong Fincher’s first book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed...
Why would a cheeky cartoon about the real estate market be deleted from all domestic Chinese...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
As of December 17, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
An article on Quartz looks at how the one-child policy, and accompanying gender imbalance, is...
The issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.” American Public...
In Foreign Policy, Roseann Lake looks at the complicated social and economic factors that have led to China’s real estate bubble. She focuses on the pressure on single men to own property in order to attract a potential...
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