Sporting Gender

By Yunxiang Gao on March 5, 2014

When China hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics—and amazed international observers with both its pageantry and gold-medal count—it made a very public statement about the country’s surge to global power. Yet, China has a much longer history of using sport to communicate a political message.

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of individual female athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. While addressing the themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changes in gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at time when women’s emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society. —University of British Columbia Press  

Should China Follow in America’s Factory Farming Footsteps?

Can Beijing Handle the Growing Environmental and Health Costs of U.S.-Style Meat Production?

on March 5, 2014

The scale of growth in China’s meat production over the past three decades is staggering. Today, one-third of the world’s meat is produced in the country and half of all pigs live there. While per capita consumption may still be below the U.S. and Europe—for now at least—it still managed to jump from 8.8lbs to 134.5lbs between 1961 and 2010.

Henan Villagers Seek Justice in Hepatitis C Scandal

Doctor Admitted Reusing Needles, Hundreds Infected

on March 4, 2014

Villagers from a county in the central province of Henan say they are still seeking justice almost two years after a doctor admitted reusing syringes and nearly 1,000 people were found to have hepatitis C.

The scandal, which has received little attention so far, started to unfold in May 2012 when doctor Li Junchao was detained and charged with illegal medical practices. For more than thirty years Li ran a tiny, run-down clinic that served the village of Jinggang in the county of Qi.

China’s National People’s Congress Annual Session

By Kevin Yao, Koh Gui Qing, Judy Hua, Kathy Chen, Gerry Shih and Dominique Patton on March 4, 2014

Premier Li Keqiang's prepared speech to be delivered at the start of the meeting, as well as highlights from reports from the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission. WORK REPORT FROM PREMIER LI KEQIANG ECONOMY http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/us-china-parliament-idUSKBN0M1...

Economy, Media, Politics
NDRC, Li Keqiang, National People’s Congress, Economic Liberalization

Chinese Sentiment

By Rinse on March 3, 2014

Shen Wei is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City. Before going to the States, he’s never even held a camera. But once he did, he never stopped. He was inspired by the medium and began exploring the power of photography. As he founded his new calling, Wei went back to China and captured moments that showed traces of the country he remembered.

Arts, Urban Life
Photography, Shen Wei

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Kunming Attack Is ‘China’s 9/11,’ State Media Says

on March 3, 2014

In the days after a major terror attack in Kunming, state media outlets are calling for a united front to combat terror and warning against excusing the attackers or criticizing the government’s policies on minorities.

On the evening of March 1, a group of assailants armed with large knives stormed the main train station in Kunming, the capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, and killed twenty-nine people. Some 143 were injured.

‘Enemies of Humanity’ — China Debates Who’s to Blame For the Kunming Attack

on March 3, 2014

It’s already being called “3.01,” or “three oh one,” a date that will likely burn in China’s collective memory for years to come. According to Xinhua, China’s state news agency, on the evening of March 1, around 9:00 p.m. Beijing time, ten or more uniformed assailants wielding long knives and dressed mostly in black descended upon the ticket hall at a busy train station in Kunming, the capital of southern Yunnan province.

Shen Dingli

on March 3, 2014

Shen Dingli is a professor and Associate Dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. He has taught international security, China-U.S. relations, and China’s foreign policy in China, the U.S., and the Semester at Sea program. His research and publication covers such topics as China-U.S. security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, and foreign and defense policy of China and the U.S.. He is Vice President of the Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, the Shanghai Association of International Studies, the Shanghai Association of American Studies, and the Shanghai UN Research Association. Shen received his Ph.D. in Physics from Fudan in 1989 and did his post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and in 2002 advised then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on strategic planning of his second term. He is on the Global Council of Asia Society and was appointed by the Shanghai Municipality as Shanghai’s Conference Ambassador. He has co-edited seventeen books and published some 2000 papers and articles worldwide.