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China

1. CHINA – BACKGROUND

 

China’s Wealth Gap in Pictures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/asia_pac_china0s_wealth_gap/html/1.stm

Will China Become the No. 1 Superpower?

http://www.livescience.com/culture/080815-china-as-superpower.html

  

  

2. CHINA – GLOBALISATION ISSUES

 

Apple iPod, iPhone Manufactured in Fantabulous Outsourcing City

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118677584137994489.html?mod=bloghttp://www.pmptoday.com/2007/08/13/apple-ipod-iphone-manufactured-in-fantabulous-outsourcing-city/ 

Avoiding Chinese Food products nearly impossible  

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/26/china.products/index.html

Made In China Part 1

 


Made In China Part 2


 

3. CHINA – POPULATION ISSUES

 

Riots against the One-Child Policy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2084868,00.html

China Faces Future as a Land of Boys 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0903/p01s03-woap.htm

Chinese county reins in birth-rate – without a one-child limit

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0227/p01s04-woap.htm

The Anomolies Of China’s One-Child Policy

http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0111/eoka.html

China’s Future with Fewer Females

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/women/population.html

China Sticking With One-Child Policy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/asia/11china.html?scp=1&sq=China’s%20sticking%20with%20one-child%20policy&st=cse

Beijing to Raise Fines on Elites Who Violate the One-Child Rule

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/world/asia/22china.html?scp=1&sq=Beijing+to+raise+fines+on+elites&st=nyt



 

4. CHINA – ECONOMY

 

Joblessness Jumps Sharply Among China’s Migrants

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/asia/03china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

College-Educated Chinese Feel Job Pinch

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/asia/25china.html

Trade Losses Rise in China, Threatening Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/business/worldbusiness/13yuan.html

  

  

5. CHINA – FOOD SCANDALS

 

China tackles tainted food crisis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6288096.stm

Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/business/worldbusiness/30food.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

China’s food safety woes now a global concern

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18078824

Death Sentence in Chinese Milk Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/asia/23milk.html

Milk Scandal in China Yields Cash for Parents

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/asia/17milk.html


  

  

6. CHINA – GENDER ISSUES

 

Gender Inequality in China

www.ipfw.edu/phil/faculty/Estevez/GenderInequalityinChina.ppt

Gender Inequality and Women’s Develpment in China

http://www.china-un.ch/eng/bjzl/t210715.htm

 


7. CHINA – SOCIAL ISSUES (SOCIAL MOBILITY)

 

Social Mobility in China

http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/rc28/papers/Treiman_Mannheim_tables.pdf

Starbucks bets on China’s new social mobility

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06333/742121-82.stm

Social Stratification in China

http://www.slideshare.net/osazuwa/social-stratification-in-china 

Internet Usage Rises in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/asia/15beijing.html

Contradictions in China, and the Rise of a Billionaire Family
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/worldbusiness/02yuan.html 

 

8. CHINA – RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


Three Gorges Dam is a disaster in the making, China admits

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2537279.ece

 

Wikipedia –  Three Gorges Dam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

 

China’s Three Gorges Dam, by the Numbers

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060609-gorges-dam.html

 

Yangtze River Dam: Promise or Threat

http://www.3gorgesdam.info/