Catholics in China: A Survival Story

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...

China’s Arctic Ambitions

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...

Two Takes on China’s Migrant Workers

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...