Contemporary Society
This Is Crazy!
"This is crazy," I observed to my audience of parents and high school students in Beijing. "Why on earth would parents send their 14- or 15- or 16-year-olds to the other side of the world for schooling, especially when studies show some of the best schools in the world are in your own country?"
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, August 21 Issue
Our top picks this week are all on the lighter side. We hope you find them as interesting as we did.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, August 14 Issue
Two glimpses of China's past and the impending trial of a recent infamous murder top this week's list of items not to be missed.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, August 8 Issue
The stories that captured our attention this week provide glimpses into religion in China, an arrest, and the Chinese student community in Los Angeles.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, July 31 Issue
The news out of and about China this week is incredibly eclectic, just like China itself.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, July 24 Issue
Churches, migration, and anti-corruption campaigns are the topics of this week's Top Picks from the ZGBriefs Newsletter.
China’s (Unfinished) Education Explosion
China is in the midst of an education explosion.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, July 17 Issue
We included quite a few articles about education in this week's ZGBriefs, but a couple of them stood out to us. One is a podcast discussion of education in China; the other is a look at Chinese study abroad programs. In addition, there were two articles about the Uyghur experience in China following recent terrorist attacks that caught our eye.
China’s Demographic Fork in the Road
Up until the beginning of this decade, China's elderly and young adult populations were growing at roughly the same rate.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, July 10 Issue
An arrest and a peek into history this week's must read ZGBriefs articles.