As the modern era is increasingly defined by the massive amounts of data generated by everyday transactions and the ways that authorities process this data to target, monitor, monetize, and control the people, Chinese web users...
Following up on the central government’s earlier promises to reform the controversial hukou...
Labor NGOs in Guangdong seem to be struggling amid the inconsistent treatment from provincial government and the lower-level executives. Charlie Vest and Shawn Shieh at China Development Brief translate a detailed report from...
For Alliance Magazine, Karla Simon blogs about the easing of restrictions on the registration of civil society organizations in Guangdong Province: At a party working conference held at the end of November in China’s Guangdong...
During the Cultural Revolution, 100,000 teenagers from Shanghai were sent to Xinjiang as part of Mao Zedong’s plan to have the educated urban youth learn from China’s peasants. Many of them spent up to thirty years...
An article in the New York Times looks at how Chinese society is trying to provide care for the increasing numbers of elderly and those with Alzheimer’s disease, many of whom don’t have children or grandchildren to...
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