Recipe: Anglo-Chinese Pheasant Dumplings
on February 8, 2016
Filled with game and pork belly, these English twists on ‘jiaozi’ dumplings are a wintry delight.
Millions of Chinese Migrant Workers Head Home for New Year
on February 8, 2016
Every year tens of millions of Chinese migrant workers head home in the largest annual mass migration of people.
Box Office Success: Money Rules
on February 8, 2016
In 2014, Chinese annual box office earnings exceeded 29 billion RMB. As of July of this year, box office sales had reached 25.9 billion. Chinese films keep smashing box office records, and surpassing 100 million in sales has become a bare minimum.
No Escape? China's Crackdown on Dissent Goes Global
on February 5, 2016
At least four dissidents of Chinese origin disappeared from Thailand in the last four months...only to resurface back in Chinese custody.
Beauty and the East: China's Plastic Surgery Boom
on February 5, 2016
China’s social media and selfie obsessions are creating a new vanity craze and a market for cosmetic surgery.
My Secret Life as a Forbidden Second Child in China
on February 5, 2016
The country's draconian birth control policies have lifted, but the millions of children born outside the system live on in the shadows.
Growing Concern in U.S. Over China’s Drive to Make Chips
on February 5, 2016
U.S. officials blocked the proposed purchase for $2.9 billion of a controlling stake in a unit of the Dutch electronics company Philips by Chinese investors.
In ‘Communist’ China, Alibaba is Training People to Shop Online
on February 5, 2016
One strategy Alibaba has for trying to stem the economic slowdown is to make sure as many of China’s 1.3 billion people as possible can shop online.
Seeking Justice for China’s ‘Underage Prostitutes’
After a Government Crackdown on Rights Activists, Child Victims of Sex Crimes Have Fewer Advocates
on February 4, 2016
Four and a half years ago in a small village on the outskirts of the coastal city of Yingkou in northern China, a woman stopped a 12-year-old girl outside the child’s school and lured her into a car. “If you don’t come with me, I will beat you every time I see you. You will not have any more good days in your life,” state media reported her saying. The woman and an accomplice allegedly used similar threats to bring seven other rural schoolgirls to a rented apartment.
Rescuing China’s Abused Animals
on February 4, 2016
We start with a heartwarming note, which I recently heard about in a New Year’s greeting from Animals Asia, a NGO started by Jill Robinson, originally from the U.K., in Chengdu to rescue Asian bears from their torture-chamber-like cages throughout China’s bear bile farms.
