China More men than women in China November 3, 2015 0 Written by Isabelle Attané. The population of China has a characteristic that is shared by very few countries, namely a higher proportion of men than women.…
China Why scrapping the one-child policy will do little to change China’s population November 2, 2015 0 Written by Stuart Gietel-Basten. China is scrapping its one-child policy and officially allowing all couples to have two children. While some may think this heralds…
China Gender inequalities at work in urban China November 2, 2015 0 Written by Jieyu Liu. The Chinese Communist Party firmly believed that the way to achieve national women’s emancipation was to ensure women did full-time paid work…
China The Health of the ‘Left-behind Parents’ October 13, 2015 0 Written by Zhong ZHAO. Statistics in 2012 showed that 194 million Chinese were 60 years old and over, accounting for 14.3% of the total Chinese population. Of…
Culture and Society China’s market in stolen babies dates back decades March 19, 2015 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. The figures in a recent BBC report on the abduction and selling of babies and children in China are shocking –…
Culture and Society More than their job’s worth: why China’s family-planning officials will go on breaking the rules to enforce the one-child policy June 29, 2012 0 By Jackie Sheehan. The photograph of Feng Jianmei lying exhausted in her hospital bed next to the seven-month-old foetus she was forced to abort has…
