Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins

Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins

The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year. See part 1 here. —– On the morning of the eighth, the hiring signs went up all throughout...
News Update

News Update

Chuang posts a news update blog about once a week.   “China Raids Offices of Rights Group as Crackdown on Activism Continues,” By ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times, March 26, 2015,...
How “feminism” became a household word this Spring Festival

How “feminism” became a household word this Spring Festival

Translation by Wv of a detailed account of last month’s debate and ensuing campaign to cancel CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala, followed by the previously unpublished original in Chinese:《女权反春晚之舆论战盘点》(“A blow-by-blow account of the feminist war of words...
Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting

Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting

The following is part 1 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year. —– It was a few days after the lunar new year when I first got here. The 5th, by that...