This summer’s heavy rainfall and flooding in southern China has prompted many local governments to solicit flood relief donations from the public, but public reaction has been notably cynical, even hostile. A combination of...
After punishing the first healthcare workers who voiced concerns about a mysterious new virus now known as the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 in December, authorities in Wuhan, Hubei province continued to act as if...
Last week, The Economist surveyed the frequently conflated corporate, local, and central aspects...
Last week, city authorities in Beijing released a “Municipal Action Plan for Further...
Over the past two years, China has seen a proliferation of state-endorsed experiments representing...
The New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan examines China’s plans for a comprehensive social credit...
Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant recently reported on China’s plans for a wide-reaching...
Charity donations have lagged behind the overall accumulation of wealth in China, in no small part...
Researchers at Central China Normal University’s Center for Chinese Rural Studies have...
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ newly released Annual Report on Social Mentality suggests that social trust in China continues to fall. From He Dan at China Daily: The Blue Book of Social Mentality, the latest...
With the former flood of news about fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai slowing to a trickle, rumors have rushed in to fill the gap, even in China’s own state media. According to some of the more recent mutterings,...
An Australian study published last week attempts to quantify the psychological effects of the “one-child policy” on those born under it, who have often been disparaged as a generation of spoiled “Little...
China Media Project carries a translation of an article from the Southern Metropolis Daily [zh], written by fellow Zhang Ming. Zhang surveys the history of news dissemination in China, arguing that recent changes and the...
A recent public panic and run on salt, which was falsely rumored to prevent radiation, has sparked a discussion on the crisis of confidence in the Chinese government. From the Economist: On one day alone, some 4,000 tonnes of...
From Caijing Magazine: In a move likely to foreshadow increased overseas access to China’s growing financial sector, Beijing regulators have approved three joint trusts that combine foreign investors with Chinese institutions....
Alan Wheatley of Reuters reports, via the International Herald Tribune: It may seem callous when nearly 70,000 people lie dead to wonder whether anything good economically could emerge from the rubble of the earthquake in...
From BBC News : Five men are to appear in court in China charged with producing fake receipts that could have cost the state billions of dollars, state media said. The men are accused of forging over one million receipts worth a...
After being questioned and exposed by Internet users, Chinese photographer Liu Weiqiang admitted that he has published a fake photo about Tibetan antelopes, which won a national prize. These photos were used by Chinese...
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