by chuang | May 18, 2020 | Blog
Since January 2020, media outlets have again begun to report on the idea that China is “loosening urban residency restrictions,” or that provinces are “loosening [their] grip on internal migration.” Locally, some Chinese-language reporting also takes claims that...
by chuang | May 14, 2020 | Blog
Image: Still from the documentary film Hooligan Sparrow The following article was submitted to us for publication by the author, Parwana, who also translated it from the original Chinese into English. Given that we rarely receive such submissions from unknown sources,...
by chuang | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
中文翻译: 四号同志. 英文原文:Social Contagion《闯》博客, 2020年2月26日 火炉...
by chuang | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
Beyond its massive economic impact, the recent coronavirus outbreak has also raised important questions about the nature of China’s healthcare system. Elsewhere, we plan to review some of the basic facts about public health expenditures and the comparatively...
by chuang | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog
The Furnace Wuhan is known colloquially as one of the “four furnaces” (四大火炉) of China for its oppressively hot humid summer, shared with Chongqing, Nanjing and alternately Nanchang or Changsha, all bustling cities with long histories along or near the Yangtze river...
by chuang | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog
The following was written at the request of Reignite Press. A Chinese version from Reignite is now available here. In addition, a second translation partially based on the first, but in a different style can be found here. -Chuang Since the Arab Spring in 2011, the...