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Lijia Zhang

Lijia Zhang is a rocket-factory worker turned freelance journalist, social commentator and the author of Socialism is Great! A Worker's Memoir of the New China

July 2013

  • Liu Yuhua, a 104-year-old, rests at the Huangzhu village of Jinjiang township

    China's unfeasible plan for the 'grey tide': force people to visit their parents

    Lijia Zhang
    Lijia Zhang: The growing number of elderly Chinese people is a demographic timebomb that won't be defused by a new law passed this month

February 2013

  • China's big divorce case exposes a hidden epidemic of domestic violence

    Lijia Zhang

    Lijia Zhang: Kim Lee's victory over celebrity husband Li Yang is in stark contrast to the treatment handed out to many Chinese women

November 2012

  • People watch a giant TV showing Xi Jinping at the 18th Communist Party Congress

    What Xi Jinping must do if China is to become a real superpower

    Lijia Zhang
    Lijia Zhang: Do China's leaders have the courage to introduce vital reforms that may hurt the interests of their friends and relatives?

June 2012

  • Chinese Catholic

    Cif belief
    China should embrace house churches

    Lijia Zhang
    Lijia Zhang: Instead of trying to curtail their growth, the state should encourage these hugely popular supportive organisations

April 2012

  • Wu Ying

    liberty central
    China's death row: Wu Ying doesn't deserve to die

    Lijia Zhang
    Lijia Zhang: A generation was brought up to cheer on public executions, but there's much unease about such punishment for financial crimes

March 2012

  • The undated video grab shows Yang Huiyan, China's wealthiest person, during her wedding ceremony

    This year let's celebrate … China leading the world in wealthy self-made women

    Lijia Zhang
  • Chinese factory workers on strike

    China's marginalised workers are waking up to their rights

    Lijia Zhang

January 2012

  • Employees work on the assembly line at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China

    China's Foxconn workers: from suicide threats to a trade union?

    Lijia Zhang
    Lijia Zhang: The workers who come to the city to find work making gadgets are starting to stand up for their rights

December 2011

  • panda1

    Edinburgh zoo's pandas are a big cuddly waste of money

    Lijia Zhang

    Lijia Zhang: Tian Tian and Yang Guang will doubtless charm zoo visitors but the cost of their stay would be better spent on conservation

October 2011

  • Yueyue’s mother

    How can I be proud of my China if we are a nation of 1.4bn cold hearts?

    Lijia Zhang
  • Chinese food

    'Dog meat at a Chinese restaurant in Yorkshire' – why do such myths spread?

    Lijia Zhang
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