by | May 3, 2020
The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan this past winter triggered deep questions about the flow of information in Mainland China, as officials played down the threat until it became too big to ignore. To those who experienced SARS in 2003, the...
by | Nov 7, 2019
In the 1980s, when Hong Kong’s future was being negotiated by China and Britain, Deng Xiaoping coined the phrase ‘one country, two systems’ to describe the solution of allowing Hong Kong’s legal and economic system to remain unchanged for 50 years. This governing...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The history books tell us the facts about the arrival and activities of Western missionaries in China. But what did this mean to the ordinary peasants and missionaries at the time? For Dr Li Ji of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the...
by | Nov 7, 2019
China may have no territory near the Arctic but, as officials like to recount, it feels the region’s pain when it comes to climate change. “There’s this dynamic where Chinese officials are saying ‘indigenous people in the Arctic are affected by the rising sea levels...
by | Nov 5, 2019
Migrant workers have long had a poor image in China. When they started to flood into cities in the 1980s and 1990s to fill factory jobs, they were regarded by both urban residents and official state media as uncivil, disorderly and crime-prone and they were denied...
