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 ...
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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.
Xi vs. Xu: Two Visions for China’s Future | ChinaFile
Nov 13, 2024 · In late October, Radio Free Asia reported that Chinese civil rights advocate and lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who is serving a 14-year sentence for state subversion, has been hunger striking to protest the conditions of his incarceration. Xu’s imprisonment stems from his vision for China’s future. At a moment when his situation seems particularly dire, …
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 ...
Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and ...
Nov 12, 2024 · Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from the school gate, and a train often appeared in the late afternoon just as we were discharged. Sometimes it was a freight train piled high with lumber or coal. It would be gliding along, clink clank, clink clank, at low speed because it …
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 …
Louise Matsakis - ChinaFile
Mar 15, 2024 · Louise Matsakis is a freelance journalist covering technology and China. She is the author of You May Also Like, a newsletter about e-commerce and the global rise of Chinese tech giants.She previously worked as an editor and reporter at Semafor, NBC News, WIRED, Rest of World, and other outlets.
Carnegie China - ChinaFile
Aug 9, 2022 · Carnegie China brings together leading policy experts and practitioners from China and around the world to engage in collaborative dialogue and research. The center works to examine Chinese foreign policy and U.S.-China relations across Asia and beyond.Carnegie China is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s …
A Guide to Social Class in Modern China | ChinaFile
Apr 28, 2014 · Class is a sensitive word in China. Marxist-Leninist rhetoric like “class enemies,” “class conflict,” and “class struggle” are rarely seen in the country’s media these days, but since China began its market reforms in 1979, stratification has emerged in a society that had hitherto tried to eradicate the very concept. After thirty-five years of …