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China’s Real Estate Bubble, and Hopes for Democracy
For CBS’ 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl visits China to investigate the “largest housing bubble in human history” and explore ghost cities, such as Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and housing and shopping...
View ArticleHukou Reform in Spotlight at NPC
What began in the early days of the PRC as a regulatory means to ensure that enough rural labor stayed where it was needed to work the fields, China’s household registration, or hukou system, has long...
View ArticleEconomic Progress Heightens Marriage Burden
Brooke Larmer of The New York Times chronicles the matchmaking efforts of two men at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum in China, where “love hunters” and other services now dot an evolving marriage...
View ArticleFood Prices Escalate Amid Inflationary Pressures
In the National People’s Congress session, the government set a target of 3.5% inflation for 2013, but leaders have acknowledged that keeping consumer prices in check in a major challenge confronting...
View ArticleBad Behavior by Wealthy Teenagers Breeds Disdain
When a 19-year-old student from China crashed his Mercedes into a car in Washington State, killing a 25-year-old and injuring four others, the Chinese microblogging sphere took note. And when his...
View ArticleYu Hua: “Only Proper That My Books Be Pirated”
While he’s “opposed to counterfeiting in all forms,” author Yu Hua claims that he can live with the piracy of his books if it means they end up in the hands of China’s poor. From his guest column in...
View ArticleLi Keqiang Assumes New Post with Talk of Reform
At his first press conference on Sunday, Premier Li Keqiang emphasized his support for policies which work to reduce the wealth gap in Chinese society, end excessive official privilege and corruption,...
View Article“Little Hu” Thrown into the Guangdong Fire
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early...
View ArticleFor Many, One Child Policy is Already Irrelevant
With the administration of Xi Jinping taking power in Beijing, many people have questioned whether the new leadership will ease the single child policy, which has been in effect since the late 1970s....
View ArticleWhose Chinese Dream?
When Xi Jinping was inaugurated as China’s President during the National People’s Congress, he gave a speech on “the Chinese Dream.” In the speech, he elaborated on this concept, according to People’s...
View Article“Black Clinics” Flourish Amid Health Reform Debate
At Reuters, Hui Li and Ben Blanchard describe “the dark corner of China’s medical system” to which migrant workers are forced to turn for treatment: A one-room shack with a single, bare light bulb on a...
View ArticleAre Xi Jinping’s Austerity Measures Working?
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
View ArticlePublic Increasingly Outraged by Abusive Chengguan
Abuse inflicted on China’s lower class by chengguan has long drawn public outrage. While the dictionary defines these officials as “city management” clerks, the Shanghaiist has (perhaps more...
View ArticleChina at the Crossroads of Renewal and Breakdown
In nearly 9,000 words at The Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon recounts his recent 22-day train journey around China, loosely following the course of Mao’s Long March. He met officials and protesters,...
View ArticleDissent Magazine: China’s 99%
The latest issue of Dissent Magazine has a special section dedicated to “China’s 99%,” or laobaixing. Curated by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, it includes articles about women, youth, ethnic minorities, and...
View ArticleStreet Hawker Xia Junfeng Executed [Updated]
Closing out a case that has inspired widespread anger online, authorities in Shenyang executed street vendor Xia Junfeng, who was convicted of killing two chengguan, or urban management, officials....
View ArticlePLA Singers’ Son Li Tianyi Sentenced to Ten Years for Gang Rape
Li Guanfeng (also known as Li Tianyi), the 17-year-old son of famed army singers Li Shuangjiang and Meng Ge, was sentenced to ten years in prison for gang rape in a case that has attracted widespread...
View ArticleChina Sends a Real Estate Mogul to Prison
Banker and real estate entrepreneur Gong Aiai has been sentenced to three years in prison for committing forgery and falsifying documents. Gong, who is known online as “Older House Sister,” acquired...
View ArticlePopulation Control Is Called Big Revenue Source in China
A Chinese lawyer has discovered that Chinese provinces have made a total of $2.7 billion in fines from citizens who violate the family planning laws. From the New York Times: The lawyer, Wu Youshui of...
View ArticleCorruption Probes Spread, but to What End?
The Xi Jinping administration’s crackdown on corruption is spreading to the provinces, with a recent inspection tour of local governments by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the...
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