The Construction of a Chinese Majority Identity
September 23, 2016
By Jonathan McAllister, SCCS Summer School Participant. From the window of the teaching building at UNNC’s summer school program, the view is spliced by a collection of high-rise buildings: symbols of China’s modernity and surging economy, which grew by 6.7% in the first quarter of 2016. Nearer the university, a collection of construction workers’ huts …
No Support, No Opposition, No Promotion
September 16, 2016
By Emmanuelle Lazzara, PhD Candidate. From the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham UK. Recent years have witnessed increasing media coverage of LGBT-related issues in China. For instance, in 2014, Qiu Bai, a student from Guangdong province, sued the Ministry of Education on the grounds that a number of university …
The ‘straddling’ bus: a solution for China’s eco-woes?
September 2, 2016
By Gareth Shaw, PhD Candidate. From the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham UK. China’s air pollution problems are world-renowned, with the country playing host to eight of the top 50 locations in the world with the worst air quality in 2016[1]. Contributing significantly to this figure is China’s on-going …
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