People keep moving from rural areas into cities.
Women
Protesting in China
July 22, 2021
Protest and resistance in China continues. We look at causes and consequences.
PRC State Council, Equality, Development and Sharing: Progress of Women's Cause in 70 Years Since New China's Founding, September 2019
February 3, 2020
This government white paper was published in advance of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China
Lily Wong Looks at Shifting Depictions of Chinese Sex Workers in Popular Media
May 15, 2019
Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.
Q&A With Dr. Fang Gang On Combating Domestic Violence Abuse China
May 1, 2019
US-China Today spoke with Fang Gang on the implications of the passage of 2016 domestic violence law in China from a psychological perspective.
Gail Hershatter Discusses Her Book "The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past"
June 9, 2016
Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s.
Video: Mei Fong examines the origins and consequences of China's one child policy
February 24, 2016
Mei Fong, a Pulitzer winning author and former USC Annenberg professor, examines the origins of China's one child policy and some of its unintended consequences through a narrative-rich story.
Ma, Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (May 13, 2015)
November 13, 2015
This review of Jean Ma's book was written by Andrew Stuckey and published by the H-Asia discussion list. It's republished here by Creative Commons license.
Q&A With Melissa Ludtke, Co-Creator of "Touching Home in China"
October 20, 2015
US-China Today interviewed Melissa Ludtke, Co-Creator of "Touching Home in China". Inspired by her adopted Chinese daughter's search for identity, former TIME correspondent Melissa Ludtke has created a vibrant multimedia project that largely grapples with the One Child Policy and gender issues in China.
Leta Hong Fincher discusses her book "Leftover Women"
June 19, 2015
Leta Hong Fincher discusses her book, debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth. Laying out the structural discrimination against women in China will speak to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development.
King, Between Birth and Death - Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (January 8, 2014)
April 12, 2015
Michelle T. King's book was reviewed by Alice Clark for H-Asia and is published here under Creative Commons license.
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Featured Articles
October 12, 2021
Western classical music was condemned during China's Cultural Revolution. But China is now the principal producer and largest consumer of many "Western" musical instruments.
Events
Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 4:00pm PT
Kirk Denton will look at the role of politics—especially political parties—in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums in Taiwan.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 4:00pm PT
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion with Barry Naughton on his assessment of what he and his colleagues got right and wrong in looking at China’s economy over the past four decades.