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How a Crackdown Transformed LGBTQ Activism in China
Sep 26, 2024 · In mid-2020, despite the COVID pandemic and years of tightening space for civil society, China’s LGBTQ movement was still making strides. While most pride celebrations around the world were canceled due to the pandemic, Shanghai Pride held nine days of festivities, including a “Pride Run” and “Pride Job Fair.”News that a transgender woman had successfully sued her employer for ...
The Paradox of Bride Price in Contemporary China: Q&A with …
Dec 13, 2024 · Shirley Xinyi Cai is a researcher in comparative politics and political theory, pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill University. One of her ongoing projects is about the caili (彩礼, i.e. bride price or betrothal gift), a deep-rooted marriage custom that calls on the family of the groom-to-be to pay a sum of money to the bride’s family.
The Tibetan Government-in-Exile Has a New Strategy
5 days ago · An unexpected development has taken place in the seven-decades-long dispute between the Tibetan exile leadership and China’s government. In early July, for the first time since 2010, Chinese authorities reportedly held direct talks with the exile Tibetan political leadership, based in Dharamsala, India. The meeting in July followed …
35 Years Later: A Retrospective of Our Work on the 1989 …
Jun 3, 2024 · This year is the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and elsewhere around China, and their brutal suppression on June 4. The memories of these events are receding into the past, a process greatly aided in China by censorship. And even when remembered, the crackdown that ended the optimistic 1980s in China is viewed by some Chinese government ...
How Much Will New Stimulus Improve China’s Economic Outlook?
Nov 4, 2024 · After months of downbeat economic news and little action from the Chinese government, Beijing has announced a slew of stimulus measures. At the end of September, the central bank announced interest rate cuts and a 500 billion renminbi (U.S.$71.30 billion) program to fund stock purchases by brokers, funds, and insurers, causing an …
Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation
Nov 8, 2013 · This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome of this Third Plenum of the Eighteenth Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will be remains shrouded in no small measure of secrecy, like most matters of high politics in China ...
Document 9, 10 Years Later - ChinaFile
Mar 6, 2023 · Ten years ago, in April 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promulgated a critical directive: its “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere.” The document, issued by the CCP’s General Office and not intended for public distribution, enumerated seven “false ideological trends, positions, and activities” that posed a …
Michael Pettis - ChinaFile
Nov 5, 2024 · Michael Pettis is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets.
Kejia Wu | ChinaFile
Sep 24, 2024 · Kejia Wu is an art historian, columnist for The Financial Times Chinese Edition, and author of the book A Modern History of China’s Art Market (Routledge, 2023). She is a trustee of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Kejia authored The European Fine Art Foundation’s Art Market Report in 2019 and was honored with the Asia Art Pioneers Award by ArtReview Asia ...