Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist who has reported from China for a decade, most recently for National Public Radio. Previously she was the BBC’s Beijing Correspondent. She lives with her husband and two children in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Young China
Single, urban, highly educated, unmarried women in their late twenties are deemed ‘leftover women’ or ‘shengnu’ by a state-backed campaign that rolls back gender equality rights, according to Leta Hong Fincher. She is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of
This month, our first Young China Watchers Conversation takes a look at the ongoing and evolving Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong. Contributing are Michael C. Davis, a professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong, and George Chen,
Deborah Brautigam is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the International Development Program and the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She is a leading scholar on China in Africa and the
YCW New York held its inaugural event on Nov. 3 with Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, who spoke about China’s bolder foreign policy under Xi Jinping and the implications for US-Asia strategy. Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt is the former Director of Asia-Pacific Programs at the United States Institute for Peace. From