Social Changes and Challenges

Social Changes and Challenges

Shanghai is the city of money, of power, of architectural progress… Shanghai is the city of the future… Shanghai is the city where the world is flocking to: Chinese from the hinterland, Taiwanese in search of a larger field of action, multinational companies, artists, adventurers and bankers… Shanghai is also the city where the next...

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Social Changes and Challenges

Benoît Vermander comments on challenges that China needs to face in 2012, the Year of the Dragon.

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China is experiencing one of the most rapidly expanding HIV epidemics in the world. According to the national surveillance system, it is estimated that in 2003 there were between 430,000 to 1,02 million people infected with HIV. The first major outbreak started in Yunnan province in 1989 among injecting drug users...

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Whomever lives or travels in China cannot but be struck by China’s resilience in the midst of the world economic crisis. For sure, China’s stock market is taking a beating, real estate is steadily going down, and unemployment is threatening to become a major social problem. However, most Chinese people still show a robust optimism, consumption...

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Are Chinese experts paying attention to the potential contribution of religious organizations to social policy? What are the views of the intellectuals who pay attention to that issue? This short research note briefly examines Chinese intellectuals’ thinking on these issues. It focuses on the Buddhist religious tradition of its long presence in...

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- The main challenges of the national policy -

Although it is undeniable that the Chinese central political authorities have now become aware of the gravity of the situation and the need to act rapidly and effectively against HIV/AIDS, what they have done so far should be considered only as a start. In fact, they are facing a number of important...

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Remembering and Creating Anew

Recently, I met with a young Naxi scholar, whose hometown is Lijiang. He was lamenting the environmental and cultural exploitation of the region. While Naxi culture seems a “hot” commodity, the actual preservation of the inheritance is almost non existent and the area’s deforestation is a sad symbol of the...

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On December 5, 2006, I was invited to give a talk for around 100 students of Shanghai University. The discussion that followed continued late in the evening. The occasion was the exhibit that these students had organized all by themselves on the Yangjuan primary school (One of their classmates, He Yanni, had served in the school for two summers.)...

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Social Changes and Challenges

Ethnic minority communities are experiencing the impact of social transformations at work in the whole of China. People – especially young people - leave for the cities in search of jobs. Minority villagers usually know little about life in the city, they are often handicapped by a poor knowledge of Chinese, and, consequently, face strong...

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