by chuang | May 20, 2015 | Blog
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about twice a month.1 Image from Ign.com. Must… Reflate… China slowdown deepens provincial economic divide – FT.com “The rich provinces and regions — with higher household consumption — are proving more resilient,”...
by chuang | May 18, 2015 | Blog
By R. W. McMorrow. Reposted from Harper’s (7 May 2015). Photo by the author (via Harper’s): Workers napping while they wait for a load of foam to come out of the oven. —– On September 3, 2013, I arrived at a worker’s dormitory in Guangdong,...
by chuang | May 15, 2015 | Blog
Translated by Mihoutao from【2015年第一季度】珠三角劳工集体维权事件盘点及图文分析, by 锤子之声 (“Sound of the Hammer”) WeChat feed April 13 (reposted on Utopia here) —– Note from “Voice of the Hammer”: The content below is taken from Road’s (马路) post...
by chuang | May 12, 2015 | Blog
A new video posted by Ground Breaking (破土). China has 260 million migrant workers. A third of these are women, and an uncounted number are mothers. Some have left their children behind in the countryside, while others struggle to raise their children on meager wages...
by chuang | May 11, 2015 | Blog
Photo by: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Slowing down the slowdown – Government takes new measures to boost cooling economy China Adds Stimulus With Third Interest-Rate Cut in 6 Months – Bloomberg, 10 May ‘China’s central bank cut interest rates for the third time...
by chuang | May 4, 2015 | Blog
Pigs Can Fly: Chinese May Day Celebration Criticized for Pushing Pigs off Bridge. The Telegraph, May 4th As May Day demonstrators battle police in countries across the world, from South Korea to the US West Coast, tourism officials in Hunan concocted a...
