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You know it’s cold in your little hutong home when your hibernating pet turtle wakes up, climbs out of his bowl, and is found huddling under the space heater. Still not sure how he did it, we’re thinking he had an outside accomplice with our cat the most likely suspect. Some hits from around the web on [...] Mara Hvistendahl writes in The New Republic this week about the possibilities of future unrest and social ills as unintended consequences of China’s One Child Policy. I wrote a little something about this last year: There are many factors that can contribute to social instability and political unrest, but having a large population of young, underemployed, and unmarried [...] There’s a new essay at OpenDemocracy by Kerry Brown, author of the book Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century. Brown argues that while the Olympics currently dominate both the headlines and the attention of Chinese government officials, the twin problems of corruption and inflation will remain once the spotlight has been turned off, the [...] Professor Li Xiaojiang, of Zhejiang University, is a pioneer of women’s and gender studies in the PRC. She published Renlei jinbu yu funu jiefang (“Human progress and women’s liberation”) in 1983, one of the first scholarly articles in her field ever published in the PRC. In 1988, Professor Li wrote an essay analyzing the situation of [...] In the wake of last week’s protests in Shanghai over construction of a new mag-lev train, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom has a great piece in The Nation looking at the history of collective action in Shanghai. Heartbreaking story out of rural China via the LA Times: poor farmers defrauded in a pyramid scam involving–would you believe it–ants. Somewhere, a grasshopper is smiling a little too smugly. It’s been a busy week here in Beijing. The Olympic year is not yet two weeks old and China is already doing its damnedest to serve up a whole stir-fry of crazy. First off, 2008 has thus far not been kind to CCTV. While the state-run station has never really considered itself either yellow or violent, [...] Dave at The Mutant Palm has posted a critique of the “guang’gun goin’ to hell” narrative that pops up every so often. The short form of that story is that sex-selection in family planning, exacerbated by the One Child Policy, is creating a bachelor bomb (a generation of guang’gun 光棍 or ‘bare sticks’) that will mean [...] Number four on Foreign Policy‘s recent “Five Population Trends to Watch” list cites China and India as leading examples of the “Too many grooms, not enough brides” trend: In China, a strong preference for sons and the country’s one-child [...] Interesting post on the academic blog, New Kid on the Hallway (“The Glory of Progress“) about the tendency by students and even some scholars to assume that because people from the past didn’t write what we would write or think the way we would think, that somehow this means they were…well, not as smart as we [...] Hong Kong-based citizen journalist and Global Voices Online contributor Oiwan Lam is facing charges of indecency in Hong Kong for posting an artsy topless photograph found on Flickr. She is facing a lengthy–and expensive–court battle and needs your help. The case has quickly become a cause célèbre in the China blogosphere. More information available [...] |
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