A weekly roundup of news and analysis to help you follow key developments in China and the Chinese church.
With Vatican Talks and Bulldozers, China Aims to Control Christianity (September 24, 2018, The New York Times)
“The administration feels that the government had been too lax in the past and now wants to increase the pressure.”
Land of a billion road trips: Chinese tourists are ditching buses for their own steering wheels (September 18, 2018, The Globe and Mail) On the rise of road-tripping in China.
China cracks down on 'chaotic' religious information online (September 10, 2018, The Guardian) All organisations promoting religious messages on the internet will have to apply for licenses.
China’s lost little emperors... how the ‘one-child policy’ will haunt the country for decades (September 2, 2018, The Guardian)
There has been an enormous amount of public venting on the shortcomings of the one-child policy in recent years.
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (August 27, 2018, The New York Times) For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States.
The Farmer Who Changed China Forever (August 21, 2018, Sixth Tone)
Forty years ago, Yan Hongchang broke the law to save his village from hunger.
[Outbound]: Noodle School (August 13, 2018, Smart Shanghai)
I know all of this about hand-pulled noodles, and more. And still, I am a noodle school dropout.
Remaking China’s Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era (August 2, 2018, China File)
Xi is advancing an ambitious effort to remake civil society in the Party-state’s image.
How a Chinese cook helped establish Yosemite and the National Park Service (July 22, 2018, NBC News) “Hundreds of Chinese go to Yosemite. ... Imagine what the experience would be for them if they knew that Chinese worked on these roads over a hundred years ago.”
Airlines comply with demand from China that Taiwan not be referred to as a sovereign nation (July 25, 2018, The Los Angeles Times)
U.S. airlines have begun to comply with a Chinese demand that Taiwan be referred to as a part of China.
Looking Through the Eyes of China’s Surveillance State (July 16, 2018, The New York Times)
Testing the surveillance methods used in the Zhengzhou train station during Spring Festival.
Love in an Old Climate (July 7, 2018, The World of Chinese) What is it like to face the end of one’s life—and see one’s loved ones grow old—in a country with an imperfect medical system?