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If China were a Country of 100 People

Posted by Grace Yu on October 28, 2021

Producer 1990 Institute Overview Our video series, “China in Perspective,” is designed to expose you to interesting and insightful information about contemporary China to better understand this complex and intriguing country of 1.4 billion people. This video is a primer … Continued

Tags: modern China • US-China relations

One-Child Policy

Created by Adam Hayes on August 24, 2021

The one-child policy has  reduced the fertility rate considerably but also skewed China’s gender ratio toward boys as people preferred to abort or abandon their female babies.

Tags: Chinese Government • one-child policy • population

Introduction to China’s Legal System

Created by Stephanie Sun on September 10, 2021

An introduction to China’s legal system.

Tags: Law • Legal System

12-Hour Days, Six Days a Week

Created by Vivian Wang on August 2, 2021

9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week – is the standard for tech workers in China.

Tags: work ethic

UNTOLD CIVIL RIGHTS STORIES – Lesson Plans

Created by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles and UCLA Asian American Studies Center on July 1, 2020

Lesson plans on Asian American civil rights issues for grades K-12

Tags: civil rights • K-12 • lesson plan

Is China Succeeding at Eradicating Poverty

Created by China Power on October 23, 2020

Rapid economic growth in China helped lifting 748.5 million people out of extreme poverty, dropping the country’s poverty rate from 66.3 percent to just 0.3 percent.

Tags: poverty • Rural/Urban Divide

China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Is That True? 

Created by Emily Feng on April 27, 2021

Shifting poor people into cities can also be a way of reducing rural poverty, but it can come at the cost of increased urban poverty

Tags: poverty • rural China

Migrant workers and their children

Created by China Labour Bulletin on May 4, 2021

One of the greatest human migrations of all times – hundreds of millions of young men and women from the countryside poured into the factories and construction sites of China’s coastal boom towns.

Tags: Migrant Workers • Rural/Urban Divide

China fulfills a dream to end poverty, but not all poor people are feeling better off

Created by Alice Su on November 27, 2020

The CCP  has spent $20.6 billion in 2020 alone on poverty alleviation, topping an increase of $3 billion in anti-poverty spending each year.

Tags: poverty

Migrant Workers Behind China’s Economic Miracle Are Miserable

Created by Amy Hawkins and James Thorpe on May 31, 2019

China’s cities are becoming more and more hostile to the people on whose backs they were built, and the migrants are not feeling the gains of the government’s promise.

Tags: Migrant Workers • poverty

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