In 2007, the Women’s Federation defined “leftover” women (sheng nu) as unmarried women over the age of 27 and China’s Ministry of Education added the term to its official lexicon. Since then, the Women’s Federation Web site has run articles stigmatizing educated women who are still single.
The Swedish Academy announced on Thursday that it had awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese author Mo Yan, the cultural high point of a week of accolades to scientists, writers and peacemakers.
The forced eviction of people from their homes and farmland has become a routine occurrence in China and represents a gross violation of China’s international human rights obligations on an enormous scale. Despite international scrutiny and censure of such abuses amid preparations for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the pace of forced evictions has only accelerated over the past three years, with millions of people across the country forced from their residences without appropriate legal protection and safeguards. These evictions are often marked by violence, committed both by state and private actors in pursuit of economic gain and, less commonly, by frustrated residents in desperate acts of protest and resistance. This report investigates forced evictions across China, documenting popular resistance and evaluating the legal options for those who seek to contest the government's actions.
A little over a year ago, I went with the Chinese writer Yu Hua to his hometown of Hangzhou, some one hundred miles southwest of Shanghai, and realized that his bawdy books might not be purely fictional; their characters and situations seemed to follow him around in real life too.
Netizens exposing public servants' taste for expensive timepieces has sparked an online and newspaper crackdown. On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), an Economic Observer (@经济观察报) reporter posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, that Fujian province transportation chief Li Dejin wears a diamond watch worth $8,000 and a belt worth $2,400. The Metropolis Times in Yunnan province (@都市时报) prepared to printed hundreds of thousands of copies of a story titled ‘Fujian’s Watch Uncle is Coming’ -- but they were destroyed due to pressure from the Fujian government over 1,000 miles away.
PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.
China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.
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Since 2006, Transpacifica has been a blog and collection of resources on East Asian politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific, with a special focus on China, Japan, and the United States. Transpacifica is edited and primarily written by Graham Webster, a research scholar, lecturer, and senior fellow of The China Center at Yale Law School.
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
