HRIC Daily Brief

China co-sponsors discussion on gender equality at UN human rights session Shanghai Daily, June 25, 2015 http://www.shanghaidaily.com/ar...

Breaking down the courtroom door NewsChina Magazine, July, 2015 http://www.newschinamag.com/magazine/breaking-down-the-courtroom-door#id...

China plans trial program to let farmers sell land The Japan Times, March 4, 2015 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/asia-pacif...

China's urban sprawl raises key question: can it feed its people? The Guardian, February 16, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2...

豫农民忆中南海座谈:总理称"你们是衣食父母" (Henan farmers remember statement made by PM at Zhongnanhai conference: you are our bread and butter) Sou...

China's villages are dying. A new film asks if they can be saved NPR, January 5, 2015 http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/...

Burmese girls "sold as brides" in rural China British Broadcasting Corporation, November 24, 2014 http://www.bbc.com/news/worl...

Once a symbol of power, farming now an economic drag in China The New York Times, October 12, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world...

Down and out in rural China The Economist, August 23, 2014 http://www.economist.com/news/china/21613293-many-teenagers-chinese-countryside...

Online anger at witnesses who did nothing to stop McDonald's killing in Shandong; cult suspects held South China Morning Post, June 2,...

Chinese officials head to countryside to try to win over locals The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2014 blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/...

中国全国政协委员王平继续提出不要鼓励农村孩子上大学 (NPC deputy criticized for suggesting rural children should not be encouraged to go to university) Radio Free Asi...

Rural China's tough lessons in resilience British Broadcasting Corporation, February 11, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26073...

农信社改制曝地方财政巨额烂帐 清欠确权阻力大 (Reform of rural credit cooperatives exposes huge bad debts) South China Morning Post, November 21, 2013 http://w...

China farmer turns yarn baron as villages embrace Alibaba Bloomberg, November 6, 2013 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/china-farm...

Hard times: how young criminals are treated says much about the urban-rural gap The Economist, October 26, 2013 http://www.economist.co...

消失中的村落：山西盂县宽坪村仅剩九口人 （Disappearing village: only 9 people remain in one Shanxi village） People’s Daily, October 25, 2013 http://politics....

黑龙江「黑地」猖獗引民愤 (Heilongjiang farm authority secretly collects profits on “black land” that is removed from gov’t registry) South China Morn...

江苏规定补偿费未到位 农民有权拒绝交地 (Jiangsu regulations: farmers have right to refuse land handover if compensation is not received) Xinhua, September 20,...

北京大学今年招生3145名 农村学生仅占14.2% (Only 14.2% of 3145 new students at Beijing University come from rural areas) Beijing News, August 29, 2013 http...