Keyword: Notes from the field

Double-speak as Resistance to LGBTQI+ Repression in China

Posted on 20 November 2022 by Ausma Bernot

‘🌈,’ I message my friend, who is an LGBTQI+ activist in China, on WeChat. ‘I’ll be there in a minute!’, she answers to let me know that she is online and available to connect to a VPN and talk to me via an encrypted platform. A clever code of rainbows and secret words that … more

Water Security in Rural China: The View from a Zhejiang Village

Posted on 28 June 2022 by Lu Chen

In September 2021, the Minister for Water Resources announced in a press release that under the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), centralised water supply and tap water coverage in rural areas had risen from 82 percent and 76 percent respectively, to 88 percent and 83 percent in 2020. The long-standing predicament faced by rural residents in … more