Ho-fung Hung

on November 25, 2014

Ho-fung Hung is the Henry M. & Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at the Sociology Department and School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the award-winning book The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World and Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty, City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule, and Clash of Empires: From “Chimerica” to the “New Cold War.” His analyses of the Chinese and global political economy and Hong Kong politics have been featured or cited in major news outlets around the world, and his works have been translated into at least 11 languages.

Internet Wrangling in Wuzhen

By Kaiser Kuo & Rogier Creemers on November 25, 2014

Kaiser Kuo hosts alone this week as we turn our attention to the World Internet Conference (English site) last week, when a last minute attempt by Chinese organizers to foist the so-called Wuzhen Declaration on participants provoked an international backlash over concerns it was attempting to make the international community complicit in even sharper restrictions on Internet usage China seems poised to impose under the country's new Internet Tsar, Lu Wei.

China’s Regulations on Sale of Birth By-product in Chaos

By Hu Qingyun on November 24, 2014

In a cramped, quiet room, several bloody placentas sit in a machine, drying. Some workers then ground them down and filled capsules with the viscera. This gory scene is not from a horror movie but the day-to-day business of an underground placenta encapsulation workshop in China.

Business, Health, Law
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Health Care, Government Policy, Illegal Trade

China’s Rich Want to Send Children Abroad for Education

By Xinhua on November 24, 2014

The report said that some 80 percent of the country's rich people have plans to send children abroad, the highest ratio in the world. By contrast, Japan has less than 1 percent and Germany has less than 10 percent of its rich people having such plans, said the report.

Economy, Education, Society, Urban Life
Education, Economic Inequality, Wealth