Interview with Li Zehou

New on the site:

An interview with Li Zehou, one of modern China’s most towering intellectual figures, published in Southern People Weekly.  Li died earlier this month in Boulder, Colorado at the age of 91.
 
A text by the Tsinghua sociologist Li Qiang on how China’s social structure has changed over the course of the first two decades of the 21st century.
 
An article by a Wuhan University graduate student, Chen Ruiyan, on how difficult it is to build houses in China’s villages.  The article was inspired by a recent murder in Fujian, provoked by a housing dispute.
 
And finally, for our “Youth Concerns” rubric, a text on the topic of sexually suggestive clothing peddled by certain Chinese companies.  This text was translated by Hannah Wang, a student in Guangzhou, who has recently joined our team.  Welcome aboard, Hannah!
 
For readers who are using our site in part for language learning purposes, I would like to mention a Chinese-language podcast I have discovered recently:  故事FM (Story FM).  All of the episodes that I have listened to have been good, but #251 and #521 are excellent.  This is not a “learn to speak Chinese” podcast, but a podcast for Chinese speakers, inspired by This American Life, so it is not easy—but it is worth the effort.

​Enjoy!