Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Feb 26, 2021
In late 2020, China declared victory over poverty, marking the end of a five-year campaign to raise rural incomes above $600 per year. In the essay “The Countryside Through A Daughter In-Law’s Eyes,” though, Huang Deng wrote movingly about the harsh realities of life outside of China’s urban areas. The poverty alleviation campaign was intended to address some of those issues, yet significant questions remain about who, exactly, accrued the benefits. Nevertheless, in a triumphant speech given in the Great Hall of the People this week, Xi Jinping reiterated that the campaign was a complete victory. Bloomberg News provided
A Symposium Of Revolutionary Ideas: CPCM 2020
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-Albert Einstein
We live in a material world. Following the industrial revolution, metals have formed the forefront of technology, and they have stayed there ever since. It is often said that material science is the foundation upon which today’s technology is based, and real-world applications would not be possible without them. On the same lines, the
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Rourkela successfully organized the
Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (CPCM-2020) from 18th – 20th December 2020.
Owing to the safety concerns amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the conference was conducted online over MS Teams. Team Monday Morning got the opportunity to cover the entire event. Read on to get a vivid account of the same.
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Dec 23, 2020
The following essay was written by Huang Deng, an educated 46-year-old woman who married into a poor rural family. A PhD and currently the Deputy Director of Finance and Media at Guangdong University of Finance, Huang is also the daughter-in-law in a struggling country household. Her unique positioning and firsthand experience of life in two very different Chinas offers
The Countryside Through a (PhD Educated) Rural Daughter-in-law’s Eyes
Although I’ve always been wary of writing about those on the lowest rungs of society, I’m worried their voices are now being silenced like never before. When a family’s children and grandchildren can no longer have their voices heard, just like their older brothers, their narratives will never come to light. There will be no one to bear witness to their grief. And because of this, their experiences will be lost to history forever.
2020-12-23 10:31 By: GMW.cn
In early December, the Second Shenzhen Book Fair was held. Despite negative factors such as the pandemic and E-commerce, the fair fulfilled a sales volume of over 20 million yuan, becoming the longest, and best-selling city book fair in China in 2020. In fact, for 29 years, Shenzhen has maintained the highest book sales nationwide. Reading has also been viewed as a key component for shaping the innovative cultural atmosphere of the city.
What is the current situation of reading amongst young people then, and how should we approach reading in the current age? During the Shenzhen Book Fair, Jiang Fangzhou and Huang Deng provided insights from the perspectives of a writer and an educator respectively.