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Literary festival all-female cohort underscores women’s writing
With an all-women lineup, the 6th EU-China Literary Festival offered a rare window into the global experience of womanhood — both lived and imagined — in and outside China.
What does Beijing want with its new rare earth mega-giant?
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Editor’s note for Wednesday, December 22, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China contemplates better laws to promote gender equality, but remains hostile to ‘radical’ feminist campaigns
New draft laws intended to protect women’s rights at home, in the workplace, and on the internet, have brought good news at the end of a bad year for feminists in China, but the men who run the government really don’t want anyone telling them what to do.
The China Project 2022 Red Paper
We all read the headlines, but what really happened in China in 2021? And what’s on deck for 2022? This is our annual guide to the China issues we all need to know about.
The birth of China’s most famous beer
For well over a century, beer has been an important part of the identity of Qingdao, China. But the history of the city’s namesake Tsingtao brewery, with its roots in European colonialism, does not follow a straight line from 1904 till now.
Can vocational education help China navigate out of the middle-income trap?
At the heart of vocational education reform is also a grand experiment in social engineering.
Are Taiwan Inc. and Japan Inc. giving up on China?
Taiwanese and Japanese companies invested in China within months of Deng Xiaoping taking power. But the political and business environment is changing.
Is 2022 the year of the ‘lazy economy’ and ‘internet cakes’?
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Editor’s note for Monday, December 20, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: The Wall Street Journal has a report on the U.S. Justice Department’s deeply flawed China Initiative, focusing on MIT nanotechnology professor Chen Gang and others who have come under scrutiny for allegedly failing to disclose China ties.
Peng Shuai retracts previous claims of sexual assault, but concerned parties are not convinced
In the latest development on Peng Shuai’s saga, the Chinese tennis player, whose account of sexual assault by a retired Party official had ignited weeks of international uproar, told a Singaporean newspaper that the controversy was a result of a misunderstanding. But her retraction of previous claims doesn’t seem to hold much sway with people concerned about her safety and well-being.
Hong Kong and Taiwan both vote, in very different ways, with very different results
Voters in Hong Kong and Taiwan went to the polls over the weekend, but the circumstances couldn’t be more different. Beijing released a white paper that talked glowingly about “universal suffrage” as the goal in Hong Kong, but included caveats that make clear it does not see the natural progression of democracy in the city as being anything like Taiwan’s experience.
DJI and the battle over data
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‘Beyond Shang-Chi’: Panel discussion on superheroes, masculinity, and Asian American representation
“At whatever point people want to contribute to the conversation and to the elevation, I think there are many moving parts. And that’s I think, again, that’s exciting. Because if you don’t want to be in front of a camera and you don’t want to work for a studio, there’s a lot of other things that people can do to move that needle. I call upon everybody to do that. We do need all hands on deck in my opinion,” says Minji Chang, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.
Editor’s note for Friday, December 17, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Taiwan’s four referendum results could raise even more questions about the future of DPP and KMT parties
Taiwanese voters are heading to the polls on December 18 to vote on four measures, mostly dealing with economic issues such as pork imports and the construction of a natural gas terminal. But with Taiwan’s two major political parties being intensely polarized around the referendum, much more could be at stake, depending on the results.
China may be taking influential stakes in more U.S.-listed companies
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‘Invisible China’: The hidden human capital crisis that threatens common prosperity
A recent book from Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell looks at how the plight of rural education may undermine China’s rise.
Editor’s note for Thursday, December 16, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Hu Xijin, editor of the Communist Party tabloid Global Times, and Twitter gladiator, has “retired” from his role.