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What does life in rural China look like?
We’re often presented with images of Beijing and Shanghai’s glittering skylines and are inundated with stories of economic success. We know that China has succeeded in bringing hundreds of millions of...
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The lives of recent Chinese graduates – Does a university degree bring a...
View of the town where they attended University A few weeks ago I sent a very brief survey to a class of my former students as a way of checking on their progress since graduation. Out of the 20+...
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Smoking as an expression of the Chinese idea of freedom
Any foreigner who has spent more than a few hours in China might have noticed that smokers are everywhere. Many notice it before they even leave the airport. In Shanghai’s Pudong airport, it’s not...
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Sheng Shuren: The Story of a Journalist in New China
I came upon the name Sheng Shuren (盛树人) recently when I was reading one of the documents left behind by Uncle Liu Erning. From the reference I learned Sheng Shuren was a man arrested along with Uncle...
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Sheng Shuren: A Journalist in New China – Part 2 – A trip to Shanghai
…continued Erjia, who was only a couple of years older than Sheng ’s oldest son, called Sheng “Shuren Dage” (树人大哥) or Big Brother Shuren, and Sheng Shuren called Erjia “Jia Di” (“家弟”) or Little Brother...
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Sheng Shuren: A Journalist in New China – Part 3 – Working for Xinhua
Part 1, Part 2 On the morning of Christmas Eve as my family and I were getting ready to go to North Carolina to visit my parents-in-law, I received an email from Mr. Sheng Liren whose information I had...
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Sheng Shuren: A Journalist in New China – Part 4 – The Great Leap Forward and...
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 I almost forgot; I had been to Shanghai before. It was the Chinese New Year of 1990, I decided spontaneously to go to a friend’s home to spend the holidays. On New Year’s Eve, I...
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Sheng Shuren: A Jounalist in New China – Part 5 – The Untouchable
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The Shengs were a prominent family in Ningpo. There were the old Shengs and the new Shengs; Mr. Sheng’s family was the old Shengs, landowners for generations. The family...
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The China travel experience
A few days ago the New York Times posted a story entitled “Where Europe Trails Asia,” in which a weary traveler longs for the friendly customs line in China over the one in Germany (which, as we all...
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A Chinese Dissident Makes Demands of Xi Jinping
Li Huaping (李化平), also known online as “Norwegian Wood” (挪威森林), is a dissident and activist based in Shanghai. Churchill and Yaxue translate. Dear Mr. Xi Jinping, Li Huaping (李化平） You have become the...
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Why Aren’t Shanghaiers Angry? An Online Discussion
The End When the number of dead pigs over Huangpu River reached 6,000 a few days ago, I tweeted, puzzled by the lack of public outcry in Shanghai, “Shanghaiers, how many dead pigs do there have to be...
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