China’s Fertility Crisis
How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis Category: Contemporary, Tags: China, Population, Welfare State, Essay This article is also published here. Introduction In 2023, China’s population shrank by 2.08 million (Qi, 2024). The reason was unambiguous: its total fertility rate is approaching 1 child per woman (Minzner, 2024), whereas 2.1 […]
Deviant Nationalisms
Deviant Nationalisms: Variants of Nationalistic Images of China’s Internet Generation Category: Contemporary, Tags: China, Nationalism, Youth Culture, Essay Introduction Since the late twentieth century, scholars have been talking about the “rise of nationalism” among the Chinese youth (Johnston, 2017; Tang & Darr, 2012). Mostly seen as a threat to political and international stability, Chinese nationalism […]