Two Orphans | Look Back
on November 10, 2016
People on the street stop to stare as Chunchun and Lei Yu walk with Lei Yu’s children in Chenzhou.
Two Orphans | With Fiends
on November 10, 2016
Ming hosts a dinner with friends and classmates to celebrate the end of their semester.
Two Orphans | Face Wash
on November 10, 2016
Chunchun washes her face to get ready for an evening performance in Jiashan.
Two Orphans | Ming With Family
on November 10, 2016
Canaday with her family shortly after arriving in the U.S. in the summer of 2001.
The Virtues of the Awful Convulsion | Red Guard Rifle Drill
on November 10, 2016
Teenage Red Guards perform a rifle drill in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, circa 1966 to 1969.
Two Orphans | Chunchun in Chenzhou
on November 10, 2016
Chen Chunchun’s boyfriend, Lei Yu, who is blind, helps her down a cement ramp in Chenzhou, Hunan province. For the most part, public spaces in China are not wheelchair accessible; this is especially true in smaller cities and towns.
Two Orphans | Ming in London
on November 10, 2016
Ming makes her way down a crowded London street, where she was studying for a Master’s degree. Here, she says, people largely give way to wheelchair users on the street, something she sees as common sense and one way in which her life in England is easier than it would be in China.
Shawn Shieh
on November 10, 2016
Shawn Shieh has 15 years of experience working to strengthen civil society and social movements in China and the Asia-Pacific. In 2018, he founded Social Innovations Advisory, Ltd. (SIA), a consultancy dedicated to building a resilient civil society in China and the global South. SIA has been partnering with other organizations to explore strategies and models for sustaining civil society and movements in closed spaces such as China, and helping civil society respond to China’s growing global influence.
Shieh is also a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, a Research Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a contributor to Rights CoLab, a member of the Governance Circle of Innovation for Change-East Asia, and a long-time consultant for the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. He was previously the Deputy Director of China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong, and Founder and Director of the English-language operations for China Development Brief, China’s only bilingual platform covering civil society and philanthropy.
Shieh received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and was a professor of Political Science at Marist College from 1995 to 2009. He has written and published extensively on civil society, corruption, and government-business relations in China and has maintained a blog on NGOs in China since 2009.
China Pushes Asia-Pacific Trade Deals as Trump Win Dashes TPP Hopes
on November 10, 2016
China will seek support for a Beijing-led Asia-Pacific free trade area at a regional summit in Peru later this month, after Donald Trump's U.S. election win dashed hopes for a U.S.-led free trade pact.
New Interpol Head is Chinese Former Deputy Head of Paramilitary Police
on November 10, 2016
Vice-minister Meng Hongwei’s election has sparked concerns his position may be used to boost China’s campaign to pursue dissidents around the globe