After reviewing dozens of candidates for our first annual Young China Watcher of the Year Award, our nomination committee narrowed the list of highly qualified individuals down to five. These outstanding nominees represent a wide variety of China-related fields: they work (or have worked) in journalism, academia, government, nonprofit, and think tanks.
![Singapore – The Billionaire Raj: India’s rise, and what it means for China? With James Crabtree [Thursday, November 01]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/james-photo-1-400x350.jpg "Singapore – The Billionaire Raj: India’s rise, and what it means for China? With James Crabtree [Thursday, November 01]")
India is experiencing a period of rapid development characterised by extremes of wealth, growing inequality and unstable industrial growth — a period James Crabtree calls “the Billionaire Raj” in his new book, which was recently short-listed for the FT /
![Shanghai – Even Closer China-Africa Community? with Eric Olander [Thursday, October 11]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/eric-olander.jpg "Shanghai – Even Closer China-Africa Community? with Eric Olander [Thursday, October 11]")
As the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the triennial official forum between China and all the African states with the exception of Eswatini, took place in Beijing in early September 2018, YCW Shanghai invites Eric
![London – Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China with Leta Hong Fincher [Monday, October 08]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/leta_hong_fincher_headshot_0.jpg "London – Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China with Leta Hong Fincher [Monday, October 08]")
Feminism poses the greatest threat to China’s authoritarian regime. That is the central argument of journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher in her new book Betraying Big Brother. The feminist movement in China has been spearheaded by five activists who
![New York – Dinner discussion: Jason Pau, Senior director at Alibaba and Chief of Staff International to Mr Jack Ma with Jason Pau [Tuesday, September 25]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/J_Pau1.jpeg "New York – Dinner discussion: Jason Pau, Senior director at Alibaba and Chief of Staff International to Mr Jack Ma with Jason Pau [Tuesday, September 25]")
Alibaba, one of China’s tech giants, established and transformed e-commerce and mobile payments in a previously cash-based society in well under a decade. It is now branching out into many more initiatives and markets overseas that potentially sets the stage