Articles By: Joshua Barajas

Investors Rally Against Financial Scheme

Spirited chants and snippets of songs echoed though the courtyard of the Hebei Provincial Guest House on the morning of May 30. The rally was part of a decade-long attempt to draw attention to the Sanheshi government, a town in China’s Hebei province, whose officials, the protesters allege, cheated them out of millions of yuan.

On The Street June 10, 2011 3:02 am Comments Off

Coming Out in Beijing

Coming Out in Beijing

Although the Chinese government removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 2001, advertisements that claim to cure homosexuality through therapy can still be found.

Featured - Main Slider, Society & Culture June 9, 2011 9:20 am Comments Off

Student Debt Remains Largely Foreign In China

The world of loans, interest rates and rising tuition costs is not entirely unknown in China. The Ministry of Education reported a total student debt from loan contracts totaling 52.41 billion RMB ($8.1 billion) since 1999. Yet according to the U.S. Federal Reserve, Americans have accumulated a total student loan debt of $900 billion, or nearly 111 times larger.

Global China June 5, 2011 8:49 am 1 comment

Removing the Blind Spots, East and West

Removing the Blind Spots, East and West

When an optometrist could not explain a Chinese mother’s blindness, Amy Wong Mok, then a psychotherapist at a mental health center in Boston Chinatown, later learned the cause – the mother’s 14-year-old son came home one day with purple hair.

Focal Points May 18, 2011 6:44 pm Comments Off