by Pei Hao | Sep 5, 2019 | Row 2
By Pei Hao | September 5, 2019 Nearly one in three smokers in the world is Chinese. In 2018, there were nearly 800,000 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in China, and every year, over a million Chinese people die from tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco control...
by Siodhbhra Parkin | Aug 29, 2019 | Row 2
By Siodhbhra Parkin | August 29, 2019 Two of China’s most famous philanthropists: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma (Mǎ Yún 马云), and Tencent co-founder Yidan “Charles” Chen (Chén Yīdān 陈一丹). In September 2018, the co-founder and executive chairman of ecommerce giant...
by Jiayun Feng | Aug 23, 2019 | Row 2
By Jiayun Feng | August 23, 2019 Photo credit: The Paris Review Like many things within China, the country’s notorious censorship system is opaque. The government describes censorship with euphemisms like “content management” but they do not publish a list of rules or...
by Lucas Niewenhuis | Aug 15, 2019 | Row 2
By Lucas Niewenhuis | August 15, 2019 Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains. Top photo: Kashgar,...
by Siodhbhra Parkin | Aug 8, 2019 | Row 2
By Siodhbhra Parkin | August 8, 2019 Top photo: A screenshot from a video released by the Ministry of Public Security in 2018 warning groups about working with foreign NGOs. The entrance to the Beijing Public Security Bureau Overseas NGO Management Office in Haidian...
by Jiayun Feng | Jul 31, 2019 | Row 2
By Jiayun Feng | July 31, 2019 While China is set to lose the crown of the world’s largest gaming market to the U.S. in 2019, the industry’s growth in the past ten years is nothing short of phenomenal. With nearly 620 million players who spent over $37 billion...
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