Written by Yusi DU, visualization by Young YANG “Self-Reliance”(自力更生) is a familiar slogan to many Chinese people. Commonly used in Maoist propaganda, self-reliance was often used to [...]

by Bailey MARSHECK with data visualization by Young YANG. Various opinion polls such as the Gallup and Pew Research Center surveys have long tracked the ordinary Americans’ views of [...]

by Xiaojun LI, Weiyi SHI, and Boliang ZHU, with data visualization by Young YANG. Who is the world’s largest “employer”? Not Google, not Walmart, it’s China’s leading crowdsourcing platform, [...]

By Bailey Marsheck and Kangyu Mark Wang How is Islam portrayed on social media in China? In this post, we explore the way in which negative sentiment toward Islam manifests itself on the Chinese [...]

By Jen PAN, Yiqing XU with data visualization by Young YANG A growing body of research shows that authoritarian regimes can be responsive to ordinary citizens, but why is this the case? Why do [...]

by Ruixue JIA with data visualization by Young YANG For over 1,300 years, China used a civil service exam to recruit its elites, including high level state bureaucrats and a much larger corpus of [...]