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For dozens of Chinese infants, especially girls, life begins or probably ends being abandoned at train stations or toilets. But since last year, after a scheme was launched to protect these unwanted offspring some have found a safer future in the form of ‘baby hatches’ or ‘baby safety islands’.
Criminals in China are creating fake charity bins to lure donations of clothing and other second-hand items which are then sold for a profit. Xia Yiming from Fujian province in Eastern China often donates clothes that have gone out of style or no longer fit to charity using location donation bins. "We always kept used clothes, waiting to give them...
At 14 years old, Wang Ying doesn’t want to be a mother. She scowls darkly as her younger brother and sister squabble in the corner while she does the housework. But she grudgingly cleans up after them and cooks them a potato stew, which they eat with rice crouched together on the mud floor of their farmhouse. The house is perched right on the edge of a steep valley, so that
Given his past animosity towards civil society, Xi’s actions have been seen by some as moving China towards a new form of totalitarianism and a closing of the space for civil society. I would argue instead that we should see Xi’s ascendancy, together with previous policies carried out during his last five years as General Secretary, as advancing an ambitious effort to remake
(AFP/Getty Images) Rescuers unload relief supplies in Shuangshi township, Lushan County of Ya’an, Sichuan province, April 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China’s most recent devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. Earth Moves, China Rallies May 4, 2013 By Caixin staff reporters Xie Haitao, He Xin, and Chen Baocheng, with Zhang Tao in Ya’an; Wang Xiaoqing, Cui Zheng, Wang Jing, and Liu Hongqiao in Beijing; and Yu Dawei in Shanghai Rapeseed was ripening in the lush fields ...