China Vows to Better Protect “Left-Behind” Children
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 16, 2016
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 16, 2014
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
by Cindy | Sep 22, 2014
China Rural Library, a grass-roots non-profit group promoting literacy and education in...
by Samuel Wade | May 13, 2014
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 2, 2014
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 20, 2013
At Foreign Policy, Liz Carter notes a recommendation from the China Internet Network Information...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 13, 2013
The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog profiles Isabel Crook, a 98-year-old resident...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 28, 2013
Lavish gift-giving among China’s wealthy has attracted considerable attention, particularly...
by Natalie Ornell | Nov 24, 2013
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 21, 2013
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 29, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 27, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 10, 2012
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%...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 16, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 13, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 14, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 17, 2011
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...