Interconnected: China’s Youth and the Internet
What impact is technology and instant communication having on China's youth?
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Chinas Youth in Perspective
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "China's Youth" (ChinaSource, 2010 Summer).
As the Family Goes, So Goes the Church
Where does the responsibility for teaching children spiritual concepts lie? Who is most influential in a child's spiritual life? Are the next generation of the Chinese church leadership being nurtured effectively?
Ethnic Relations in China with Special Reference to Its Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The challenges of achieving the goal of integration for ethnic minorities in China and Hong Kong.
Sustainability on the Third Pole: Of Water and Carbon; Policies and People
China is undergoing extraordinarily rapid change. Development is occurring at a phenomenal rate; indeed a full transformation of the landscape is taking place, both urban and rurala transformation that we never dreamed possible only a few years ago. In addition, all of this is taking place with an apparent resolve with inherent potential consequencesunintended consequences, perhaps, but no less serious in their social or environmental impactsthat could in fact undermine the very reasons for which the planned changes were initiated in the first place.
What are these changes, policies, actions? They can be summed up under the umbrella of all the development policies, projects and actions related to urbanization, on the one hand, and to several major environmental concerns in China's vast inland, western regions, on the other hand. How can "urbanization" and "environment"often seen as being on opposite ends of a spectrum or continuumbe drawn together and referred to as part of the same paradigm? The answer: through the notion of sustainability.
Conserving Water and Wildlife in the Source Areas of China’s Major Rivers
China is developing at a phenomenal rate, and urbanization may be the most obvious feature of China’s human landscape in the 21st century; yet, we must ask the question: At what price such rapid development?
China Road
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford.
Reviewed by Kay Danielson
Urban Migrants
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao.
Reviewed by Brad Burgess
Educational Inequality for Migrant Children Perpetuates Poverty
Even after thirty years of economic reform, the majority of rural migrants in China's cities are still kept out of the formal labor market and professional tracks. Most of them pick up jobs in the informal sector. Such social inequality is likely to be perpetuated given the fact that their second generation is not provided with quality education. In China, education, often considered a way of changing one's life trajectory, now only reproduces social status and reinforces class boundaries.
The Moving Population of China
China's migrant population presents both challenges and uncertainties.
Everyone Is Not Local
Migrant workers make important contributions to China's cities but also pose tremendous challenges. A resident of Beijing explores how migrants fit in the capital and how Beijingers view them.