Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of the rural collective and thus...
After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
Provincial prosecutors in Guizhou have set up a special investigative team to look into the case of a female entrepreneur who, along with members of her legal team, was detained and accused of “picking quarrels and provoking...
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony...
“Bridge builder” is normally a high compliment. For one family in Jilin province, however, bridge-building earned them charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” setting off another national debate about the...
In late 2020, China declared victory over poverty, marking the end of a five-year campaign to raise rural incomes above $600 per year. In the essay “The Countryside Through A Daughter In-Law’s Eyes,” though, Huang Deng wrote...
The following essay was written by Huang Deng, an educated 46-year-old woman who married into a poor rural family. A PhD and currently the Deputy Director of Finance and Media at Guangdong University of Finance, Huang is also...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Notice: From June 28 onward, all...
The hukou, or household registration, system has long divided China’s urban and rural...
In a multimedia web production, Carrie Gracie of the BBC has compiled ten years of reporting from...
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
Joe Zhang, the author of “Party Man, Company Man: Is China’s State Capitalism Doomed?” and a...
With climate change on the global political agenda this week, much attention is being paid to...
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
In an interview with TIME’s Elizabeth Dias, the Dalai Lama gave some thoughts on Xi...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
In the New York Times, Ian Johnson has written a lengthy report about a model town built outside...
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...
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