Evaluating the Urban-Rural Wealth Gap
The hukou, or household registration, system has long divided China’s urban and rural...
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LatestThe Village and the Girl
In a multimedia web production, Carrie Gracie of the BBC has compiled ten years of reporting from...
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...
The Disintegration of Rural China
Joe Zhang, the author of “Party Man, Company Man: Is China’s State Capitalism Doomed?” and a...
On The Ground In China’s Fight To Quit Coal
With climate change on the global political agenda this week, much attention is being paid to...
Rural China 59.2526% Harmonious
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
Dalai Lama on Xi Jinping, Self-Immolation, and Pot
In an interview with TIME’s Elizabeth Dias, the Dalai Lama gave some thoughts on Xi...
Urbanites Find Refuge in China’s Countryside
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
New China Cities: Shoddy Homes, Broken Hope
In the New York Times, Ian Johnson has written a lengthy report about a model town built outside...
Making Rural China Urban
China researcher Mi Shih offers her insight on the new approach to rural development launched by the new regime in 2012, called chengzhenhua, or literally “city- and town-ification”. From The China Story: Chinese...
Is the Most Famous Peasant a Dictator?
Wu Renbao, the Party chief of Huaxi Village, died of lung cancer on Monday, stirring up a debate over his dictatorial policies that created one of China’s leading rural economies. From Amy Li at South China Morning Post:...
Return to River Town
Peter Hessler, the former New Yorker correspondent in Beijing, also wrote a best-selling book in 2001, River Town, which documented his two years teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in a town that was on the verge of...
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...
China Pledges Rural Reforms to Boost Incomes
As part of incoming Premier Li Keqiang’s plan to focus on China’s urbanization, new policies will aim to develop rural regions and narrow the rural-urban divide. From Bloomberg: The government will increase...
The Great Migration: Chinese Workers Return Home
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz visits with migrant laborers who have returned home to cities and towns in China’s interior from coastal factories, following an upsurge in investment there: Zhang Xianjun just returned from a...
Photographs Capture a Disappearing China
With rapid and profound economic and social changes underway in China, many aspects of day-to-day life are being transformed. Several artists have recently made efforts to document the current way of life for Chinese families as...
Xiong Peiyun on Land and Revolt
Europe correspondent for Window on the South (南风窗) Xiong Peiyun shared his thoughts on land...
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%...
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