As China doubles down on its zero-COVID policy, Shanghai struggles through a sixth week of lockdown, and Beijing expands mass testing and targeted closures, many smaller Chinese cities and towns have endured much longer periods...
A short viral video of a purportedly mentally-ill mother of eight kept chained in an outdoor shed has provoked outrage among Chinese citizens, prompted a criminal investigation, and brought renewed attention to the issues of...
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
China Rural Library, a grass-roots non-profit group promoting literacy and education in...
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
At Foreign Policy, Liz Carter notes a recommendation from the China Internet Network Information...
The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog profiles Isabel Crook, a 98-year-old resident...
Lavish gift-giving among China’s wealthy has attracted considerable attention, particularly...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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...
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