ZGBriefs | March 29, 2018
Nobody Knows Anything About China (March 21, 2018, Foreign Policy) We don’t know China because most information is unreliable, partial, and/or distorted.
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ZGBriefs | March 22, 2018
The Foreign Missionaries Who First Turned a Lens on China (March 16, 2018, Sixth Tone)
Very few Chinese people owned cameras at this time. Of even greater value than the photographs themselves was the fact that the missionaries were focusing the lens on what Chinese people considered extremely mundane, looking at Chinese life from a foreigner’s perspective.
ZGBriefs | March 15, 2018
Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China (March 13, 2018, Pen) A look at how the Party monitors and controls online expression, particularly on social media platforms.
ZGBriefs | March 8, 2018
China’s Cities Are Making Migrant Workers Profoundly Lonely (March 6, 2018, Sixth Tone) Shenzhen is hardly anyone’s laojia. Of the millions of people who live here, most have ties with the city that stretch back no further than a generation.
ZGBriefs | March 1, 2018
Xi Won’t Go: A ChinaFile Conversation (February 25, 2018, China File)
What do constitutional changes mean for Chinese politics, political reform, and relations with the rest of the world?
ZGBriefs | February 22, 2018
China’s Hui Muslims fearful Chinese New Year education ban a sign of curbs to come (February 16, 2018, Reuters)
a ban on young people engaging in religious education in mosques is an unwelcome interference in how they lead their lives.
ZGBriefs | February 15, 2018
From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower (February 13, 2018, Wired)
In China, change comes so quickly that the future can arrive before the past is fully stripped away.
ZGBriefs | February 8, 2018
Possible deal between Vatican and China alarms many Catholics (February 2, 2018,
The Washington Post)
Reports that the Vatican and China have reached an agreement on appointing bishops have been greeted with consternation by many Catholics in China and Taiwan.
ZGBriefs | February 1, 2018
China’s Rise and the Church’s Call (January 30, 2018, The Gospel Coalition)
We need to welcome a newfound interdependence with the global church—including brothers and sisters in China.
ZGBriefs | January 25, 2018
How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites (February 2018, National Geographic) As more Chinese crave Western-style diets, the booming nation rushes to industrialize an agricultural economy long built around small farms.
ZGBriefs | January 18, 2018
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (January 11, 2018, Quartz)
There are only two ways to say "tea" in the world and both versions come from China.
ZGBriefs | January 11, 2018
Livestreaming Country Life Is Turning Some Chinese Farmers into Celebrities (January 3, 2018, NPR)
Each day, farmer Liu livestreams video of his life in rural Sichuan province to nearly 200,000 subscribers