ZGBriefs from 2018
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ZGBriefs | December 27, 2018
Beijing Expats Decry “Click-bait-y” Reports About a Christmas Crackdown (December 26, 2018, The Beijinger)
Are the reports of anti-Christmas measures greatly exaggerated?
ZGBriefs | December 20, 2018
China's staggering 40 years of change in pictures (December 18, 2018, BBC) Forty years ago, China introduced major economic reforms - lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and leading to it becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
ZGBriefs | December 13, 2018
Chinese Police Detain Prominent Pastor and Over 100 Protestants (December 10, 2018, The New York Times)
The Chinese police have detained one of the country’s most prominent Protestant pastors.
ZGBriefs | December 6, 2018
Weibo’s Online Slang: 10 Chinese ‘Tribes’ & ‘Clans’ to Know (December 1, 2018, What’s on Weibo)
A major part of this online slang culture is the categorization of people into ‘tribes’ or ‘clans’ (族); classifying those (urban) young Chinese people who share certain traits.
ZGBriefs | November 29, 2018
How ‘Survivors’ Are Navigating the New Environment (November 27, 2018, The China NGO Project)
A discussion on the state of play nearly two years after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect.
ZGBriefs | November 15, 2018
Forty Years on, Is China Still Reforming? (November 9, 2018, China File)
What does this common but vague expression actually mean to Xi? And is Beijing actually reforming and opening up, or stagnating and closing down?
ZGBriefs | November 8, 2018
China's middle class: We're being picked like leeks by the government (November 4, 2018, CNN) Wang is one of millions of Chinese middle-class men and women who grew up in a roaring economy… but the past year has been especially tough.
ZGBriefs | November 1, 2018
Insights into the Social Credit System on Chinese Online Media vs Its Portrayal in Western Media (October 30, 2018, What’s on Weibo)
Contrasting Chinese and Western media coverage of China’s Social Credit System
ZGBriefs | October 25, 2018
Buddha-mania: Understanding China’s Buddha Building Boom (October 23, 2018, Sixth Tone)
Is there such a thing as too many Buddhas? China may be about to find out.
ZGBriefs | October 18, 2018
How the Foreign NGO Law Has Affected International Adoption (October 16, 2018, China File) The Chinese government has prevented foreign adoption agencies from legally filing temporary activities in China, and has effectively shut down at least three major official programs.