ZGBriefs | July 12, 2018
Love in an Old Climate (July 7, 2018, The World of Chinese) What is it like to face the end of one’s life—and see one’s loved ones grow old—in a country with an imperfect medical system?
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ZGBriefs | July 5, 2018
China’s Belt and Road: Exporting Evangelism? (July 4, 2018, The Diplomat) Despite Beijing’s own misgivings about religion and proselytization, it appears to have no qualms in supplying the rest of the world with religious literature.
ZGBriefs | June 28, 2018
Meet the five urban Chinas (June 20, 2018, Brookings) While China’s cities are at the frontier of global growth, many of them are still little known to the world.
ZGBriefs | June 21, 2018
The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter (June 13, 2018, Atlas Obscura)
When the world refused to let in Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, Shanghai was the only place on earth willing to accept them with or without papers.
ZGBriefs | June 14, 2018
How Bad Is Facebook’s New China Problem? (June 6, 2018, The Atlantic)
A Chinese tech giant with connections to the government appears to be among Facebook’s partners in a data-sharing program.
ZGBriefs | June 7, 2018
Tiananmen Square, A 'Watershed' For Chinese Conversions to Christianity (June 4, 2018, WBUR) It marked the beginning of "a quiet spiritual revolution" among many Chinese, who equated Christianity with modernity.
ZGBriefs | May 31, 2018
Will China finally end its one-child policy? (May 23, 2018, Lowy Institute)
Scrapping the one-child policy won’t undo the damage it’s caused over more than thirty years.
ZGBriefs | May 24, 2018
Baozi vs. Jiaozi (May 20, 2018, Transparent Language) Both are cheap, delicious little bundles of joy, so you really can’t go wrong either way.
ZGBriefs | May 17, 2018
How China is trying to impose Islam with Chinese characteristics in the Hui Muslim heartland(May 14, 2018, South China Morning Post) Calls to prayer are now banned in Yinchuan on the grounds of noise pollution.
ZGBriefs | May 10, 2018
The Chinese American Protestant Christians of Flushing, Queens (May 4, 2018, NYC Religions) Flushing’s Christian churches are becoming global hubs for Chinese evangelical Christians.
ZGBriefs | May 3, 2018
Grid Management and Social Control in China (April 29, 2018, China Policy Institute)
The adoption of grid management signals the government’s tightened monitoring of society in China.
ZGBriefs | April 26, 2018
Five ways China's past has shaped its present (April 20, 2018, BBC)
It is striking how many echoes of China’s past can be found in its present.