At his Sinostand blog, Economic Observer’s Eric Fish argues that China faces bigger dangers than an economic crash: namely, severe water shortages and pollution, and an aging and gender-imbalanced population. I try to be...
Read MoreThe …In Shanghai blog looks at a recent UNDP report titled, “Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific,” which reports that 96 million women and girls are...
Read MoreBorn and raised in Xinjiang, Huang Zhangjin (黄章晋) has worked as a journalist for several media organizations and is also a longtime blogger. Huang was also an editor of online forum, Uighur Online. The following post...
Read MoreChinese police have broken a human trafficking ring which kidnapped 18 Vietnamese women and sold them into marriages in the southeast of China. From The China Post: The women had been working in China’s Guangxi region that...
Read MoreFrom AFP via Yahoo.com: Fearing the approach of a ticking “bachelor bomb,” China is planning tougher laws against sex-selective abortions that have boosted the number of boys in recent years, state media said Saturday. The State Council, or cabinet, is drafting special regulations that specify punishments for parents and doctors who abort foetuses after discovering […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Today’s boys may face a major problem when they become tomorrow’s men – they will find it very difficult to get hitched, simply because there won’t be enough women. Sociologists are calling for swift measures to be taken to address the nation’s growing gender ratio imbalance. China now has 37 million more […]
Read MoreFrom AsiaPacific Issues (in PDF form): Wang’s 12-page essay cites and documents facts essential to understanding earlier, present and likely future debates on this topic. Emphasizing the plurality of China’s population policies, sociologist Wang corrects the common impression that China ever had a single policy, even during the same time period. China’s birth rate was […]
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