| Volume 8, Number 1, January 2011 |
Crossing Leaks,
Global Links
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
The Household Registration System
and Migrant Labour in China
by 陈金永 Chan Kamwing |
WITH the beginning of the year 2011, one would hope that the long series of natural disasters and tragedies generated by human negligence, that have plagued the several past months, will not repeat itself in the days to come. As we said in concluding the Editorial of the preceding issue of this quarterly: “By not heeding what is happening, there is no way to heed what has to come: a better world.” Some positive signs or some renewed awareness for...
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FOR more than half a century, the hukou (household registration) system in China has segregated the rural and urban populations, initially in geographical terms, but more fundamentally in social, economic, and political terms. It is the foundation of China’s divisive dualistic socioeconomic structure and the country’s two classes of citizenship. Under this system, some 700-800 million people are in effect treated as second-class citizens, deprived of the opportunity...
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Translating the Term “Person”
into Chinese— Difficulties and Challenges
by Edmund Ryden 雷敦龢 |
Moving Beyond Shenzhen
by 沈丁立 Shen Dingli |
THE term “person” is at the centre of human rights discourse, yet it is one which is exceedingly difficult to translate into Chinese. I will first point out in what ways the difficulty manifests itself and then look at attempts to provide a translation. I will also look into the background of the term in Western discourse and attempt to understand why the complication arises. Unfortunately, I cannot resolve the problem.
Recently the United Nations issued a “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”. The title was carefully chosen to avoid terms such as “the disabled”, that is, to avoid terms which...
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SHENZHEN was the pioneer of China’s success, yet it has not, so far, provided a solution to the problem of sustainable and balanced development.
China is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. How time flies. The past thirty years have seen explosive economic growth in China, and Shenzhen has grown from a fishing village into one of the Far East’s major metropolises.
Shenzhen was earmarked as one of China’s first trial sites for economic opening, allowing market mechanisms to be introduced and tested...
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Hukou Reforms Debate
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