Person of the Week: Yu Jianrong
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Yu Jianrong
Yu Jianrong Offers Authorities “Ten Do Not’s”
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), a rural sociologist known for his...
Yu Jianrong on “System that Manufactures Corruption”
As Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign nabs “tigers and flies”—corrupt...
Yu Jianrong: The Sadness Behind the Scenery
Yu Jianrong—bold rural sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, starter of a viral...
Beijing’s Blind Criticize Poorly Planned Pathways
An illustrated report by Chris Luo at South China Morning Post highlights Beijing’s...
China, USSR, and Desperate Dire Predictions
A commentary [zh] widely published in China’s state media warns that the “European and American model of capitalism and constitutionalism”, promoted online by doom-laden false rumors, could tip China into an...
Netizen Voices: Don’t Smother Our “Chinese Dream”
Yu Jianrong, director of the Rural Development Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has championed social causes through social media. In 2011, he ran a Weibo campaign in which he asked netizens to post photos of...
Word of the Week: Take a Walk
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Yu Jianrong: Reassessing China’s ‘Rigid Stability’
In an essay translated by Jason Todd, professor Yu Jianrong argues that China’s fixation on “stability at all costs” is misguided and unsustainable. He advocates the cultivation of a resilient and dynamic...
Academic Outraged at U.K. Visa Hukou Demand
Yu Jianrong, a professor of rural affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is to meet with the British ambassador after outsourced visa processing staff insisted on seeing his hukou household registration document....
Breaking the Cycle of Petition and Interception
ChinaGeeks’ Charles Custer has translated a Caixin opinion piece by Yu Jianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Yu outlines various problems with and resulting from China’s petitioning system and the...
China’s “Great Global Thinkers” for 2012
As the season of lists gets underway, Foreign Policy has released its ranking of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012. Fresh from his coronation as GQ magazine’s Rebel of the Year, and leading the Chinese contingent at...
That Year, These Years: Stories of June Fourth
By Li Xuewen Translated by Little Bluegill Original text here. That Year, I was twelve years old...
Yu Jianrong Posts 10-year Reform Plan
Scholar Yu Jianrong has posted a detailed plan to bring social and political reform to China. China Media Project has translated the plan, which was first posted on Yu’s microblog site. From CNP’s introduction: Yu...
China’s Violent Push for “Stability”
China Media Project translates an article by Fellow Yu Jianrong, originally published in January in Xinhua’s International Herald Leader. Yu argues that the government’s obsession with stability above all else is...
Judicial Scholar: Female Chinese Students Return from France Floozies
A law professor has threatened Weibo users including Yu Jianrong with legal action for spreading “arbitrarily clipped” video of one of his lectures online. The footage shows him besmirching the honour of female...
Yu Jianrong on Closing of Migrant Schools
China Media Project has translates an online chat conducted with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Professor Yu Jianrong about the recent closures of schools for the children of migrant workers: Over the past six months, more...
Ear to the Ground
China Daily USA Edition profiles Yu Jianrong, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who also advocates on behalf of petitioners, rural residents, and other disenfranchised members of Chinese society: Yu Jianrong...
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