A weekly roundup of news and analysis to help you follow key developments in China and the Chinese church.
China’s lost little emperors... how the ‘one-child policy’ will haunt the country for decades (September 2, 2018, The Guardian)
There has been an enormous amount of public venting on the shortcomings of the one-child policy in recent years.
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (August 27, 2018, The New York Times) For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States.
The Farmer Who Changed China Forever (August 21, 2018, Sixth Tone)
Forty years ago, Yan Hongchang broke the law to save his village from hunger.
[Outbound]: Noodle School (August 13, 2018, Smart Shanghai)
I know all of this about hand-pulled noodles, and more. And still, I am a noodle school dropout.
Remaking China’s Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era (August 2, 2018, China File)
Xi is advancing an ambitious effort to remake civil society in the Party-state’s image.
How a Chinese cook helped establish Yosemite and the National Park Service (July 22, 2018, NBC News) “Hundreds of Chinese go to Yosemite. ... Imagine what the experience would be for them if they knew that Chinese worked on these roads over a hundred years ago.”
Airlines comply with demand from China that Taiwan not be referred to as a sovereign nation (July 25, 2018, The Los Angeles Times)
U.S. airlines have begun to comply with a Chinese demand that Taiwan be referred to as a part of China.
Looking Through the Eyes of China’s Surveillance State (July 16, 2018, The New York Times)
Testing the surveillance methods used in the Zhengzhou train station during Spring Festival.
Love in an Old Climate (July 7, 2018, The World of Chinese) What is it like to face the end of one’s life—and see one’s loved ones grow old—in a country with an imperfect medical system?
China’s Belt and Road: Exporting Evangelism? (July 4, 2018, The Diplomat) Despite Beijing’s own misgivings about religion and proselytization, it appears to have no qualms in supplying the rest of the world with religious literature.
Meet the five urban Chinas (June 20, 2018, Brookings) While China’s cities are at the frontier of global growth, many of them are still little known to the world.
The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter (June 13, 2018, Atlas Obscura)
When the world refused to let in Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, Shanghai was the only place on earth willing to accept them with or without papers.