Live-Streaming in China Now Requires a Broadcast License If You’re Not a Citizen
on February 16, 2017
Live streaming is taking off in China, but foreigners won’t be able to join in the fun.
Why It Matters That Bill Gates Joined China’s Super App WeChat
on February 16, 2017
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the newest member of WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app.
China’s Artificial Intelligence Boom
on February 16, 2017
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
China Moves to Keep Its Deadly Opioids out of U.S.
on February 16, 2017
China moved to stem its flow of deadly drugs to the U.S., adding four lethal heroin-like narcotics to a list of controlled substances after Washington had urged it to help combat a growing opioid epidemic.
Chinese Students in the U.S. Are Using “Inclusion” and “Diversity” to Oppose a Dalai Lama Graduation Speech
on February 16, 2017
On Feb. 2, the University of California, San Diego formally announced that the Dalai Lama would make a keynote speech at the June commencement ceremony. The announcement triggered outrage among Chinese students who view the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as an oppressive figure threatening to divide a unified China.
The Overseas NGO Law and Its Effects on Chinese NGOs’ Contribution to Global Development
on February 16, 2017
University for Migrant Workers | Tencent “Living”
on February 15, 2017
Some 50 miles outside of Beijing is “Worker’s University,” a school founded in 2009 by a musician and former migrant worker named Sun Heng to help migrant workers “find their dignity and value in society.” Students trade their labor for classes. They work on a cooperative farm for six months in exchange for training in computer operation and repair, as well as lessons in Marxist ideology.
Psych Ward Seeks Patients’ Families in Time for Lunar New Year | The Paper
on February 15, 2017
Lunar New Year is a time to spend with family, but in the Eighth People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, in Henan province, many of the mental health patients do not know who their families are.
Transgender in Cambodia | Tencent
on February 15, 2017
While attending a workshop for emerging photographers at last year’s Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia, Jia Yanan found a new way to approach a longstanding interest in fluid boundaries of gender. Jia’s earlier work included a photo essay on drag queens in Shanghai, which she had shot in the mode of traditional reportage. When she proposed photographing transgender people in Cambodia, her tutors at the workshop urged her to experiment with a different style of photography.
Riding Motorcycles Home for Lunar New Year | Caixin Media
on February 15, 2017
Each year ahead of the Lunar New Year, an estimated 400,000 migrant workers in Guangdong province travel home by motorcycle. Although biking is far from the safest travel option, it’s cheap and it’s a good way to avoid overcrowded trains. This year, photographer Liang Yingfei set up a roadside mobile photo studio to make portraits of homebound bikers and the things they brought with them.
