China Vows to Better Protect “Left-Behind” Children
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
rural areas
Chinese Artists Go “Back to the Land”
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
Rural Library Chain Closes Under Pressure
China Rural Library, a grass-roots non-profit group promoting literacy and education in...
Rural China 59.2526% Harmonious
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
‘Once the Villages Are Gone, the Culture Is Gone’
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
China Pushes Smartphones for Stupid Melons
At Foreign Policy, Liz Carter notes a recommendation from the China Internet Network Information...
A Story of China, 70 Years in the Making
The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog profiles Isabel Crook, a 98-year-old resident...
Social Customs & Inequality: Two Weddings, No Fridge
Lavish gift-giving among China’s wealthy has attracted considerable attention, particularly...
Urbanites Find Refuge in China’s Countryside
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
Is Land Reform Finally Coming to China?
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
Rural Pollution: China’s Bad Earth
At The Wall Street Journal, Josh Chin and Brian Spegele explore the environmental deterioration of China’s countryside, which threatens to undermine both the security of the country’s food supply and the legitimacy...
Photographer Documents Toll of Labor Migration
In 2011, photographer Liu Jie captured the division of Chinese families by labor migration in a series of portraits. Against scenic countryside backdrops, his subjects posed with empty chairs representing family members who had...
Xi’s Visit Lifts a Village, But Lays Bare Rural Woes
China’s countryside, where almost half of its population still lives, lags far behind the cities in its level of development. Average incomes are less than a third of their urban counterparts, and economic migration has...
Pollution In Fashion and Under Rugs
Outsourced pollution is a convenient effect of outsourced manufacturing. A paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year found that once it was taken into account, developed countries’ apparent 2%...
China Newborn Baby Deaths Fall with Improved Healthcare (Updated)
Research from Peking University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds that the death rate among newborn babies in China has fallen sharply since the mid-1990s. From Reuters: Deaths among newborn babies...
Empty Chairs Symbolise Pain of Rural China
Ministry of Tofu has posted a set of photos by Xinhua’s Liu Jie, which poignantly reflect the separation of millions of families by mass labour migration and tight residence restrictions. Due to the massive urbanization...
China Doctors Earning $300 a Month Flock to Drug Companies
While China faces a shortage of doctors, many newly qualified physicians are abandoning the profession in favour of more lucrative careers in pharmaceutical sales. From Bloomberg: Mao [Mengjia], 26, tripled his income after...
Rural China Virus Identified
A virus which killed as many as 30% of its early victims in rural China has been tentatively identified, and is believed to be borne by ticks. From MedPage Today: Since June 2009, investigators have documented the presence of...
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