Can China Return to Normalcy While Keeping the Coronavirus in Check?
Public health officials worldwide are watching closely as China addresses COVID-19.
Public health officials worldwide are watching closely as China addresses COVID-19.
George Gao oversees 2,000 employees as the director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
A story with immense explanatory power touching on geopolitics, the rise of China and the power of Chinese consumers—and of course, climate change.
Like so many politicians, campaign rhetoric switches once leaders take office and face the realities of doing business with China. But Bolsonaro has bet big on China — and that's risky business.
Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached the highest rate in more than a decade. One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region is the growing of soybeans for livestock feed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to reporter and Pulitzer Center Grantee Melissa Chan about her reporting in Brazil on Chinese interests in the Amazon.
With Flávio Dino's endorsement, Chinese money displaces the poor in Maranhão.
The biggest new business in the Philippines caters to online gamblers in China, but while it might seem immune to virus-related travel restrictions, the reality is far more complicated.
Painkiller addicts in China remain largely invisible and, despite strict regulations, can turn to online black markets for opioids and other prescription drugs. The Associated Press found previously unreported trafficking of OxyContin and Tylox on e-commerce and social media platforms run by China’s largest technology companies.
Ian Teh documents the changing landscape and shifting water resources surrounding China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau near the Yellow River.
Monika Bulaj documents endangered rituals around the world.
The lands around the Yellow River are turning to sand.
Ian Teh explores the impact of human activities on nature in China's Yellow River basin.
Why, despite growing vastly richer and steadily more powerful over the last generation, has China remained frustrated in its goal of bringing Hong Kong and Taiwan under its unquestioned authority?
This global reporting project on urbanization in the developing world examines how three major countries—China, India, and Mexico—are dealing with a similar challenge in their own unique ways.
Why are people who were smuggled to the U.S. from a rural high school in China three decades ago now going back to China?
China is a vast land but our understanding of it is dominated by views from Beijing and Shanghai. In this series, we go off the beaten track to talk to people trying to shape China at its grassroots.
Concrete. Glass. Silicon. Our civilization is built on the most important yet most overlooked commodity in the world: sand. And we are starting to run out.
China's Muslim minorities make up only two percent of the population, but comprise 20 million people. How do they relate to Islam, the state, the majority Han Chinese and one another?
What happens at the source of the worlds biggest water transfer project?
In Beijing a tiny NGO is taking on global corporations and harnessing people power in a campaign to clean up polluting factories in China.
China’s deadly mining accidents hit the international news headlines frequently. But the country's top occupational disease, pneumoconiosis, kills three times as many miners each year.
Living beneath Beijing's skyscrapers and residential blocks are an estimated 1 million migrant workers. Dubbed the "Rat Tribe", these low-wage workers make a home in windowless basement cubicles.
China has committed to nine years of education for all children, but students with physical disabilities often confront discrimination. How do these students access education?
The Chinese government and people, confronted with colossal environmental challenges, are turning to cultural traditions that under Communism had long been suppressed.
"After Nepal Quakes, Worries in the Water" and "Dying to Breathe" win awards in 2016 multimedia contest.
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
The Pulitzer Center staff share favorite images from 2015.
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
Our latest e-book offers surprising insights on a growing global debate about the environment.
China and Taiwan still miles apart on reunification.
Sim Chi Yin, once a print journalist, now photographs her stories: most recently, the plight of Chinese mine workers with silicosis. Time and patience help her create intimacy with her subjects.
The search for a story on a deadly occupational disease affecting miners in China leads one journalist to a story of human resilience, loyalty and love.
Pulitzer Center grantee Larry C. Price traveled to China for a tour of four universities throughout the country, speaking to students about his reporting.
Hear from journalists, academic experts on religion's unlikely role in meeting environmental challenges in China.
Journalists, filmmakers, and academic specialists from China and the U.S. gather at University of Chicago to explore religion's role in meeting China’s environmental crises.
How wasteful are we when it comes to our food? What is the China doing to feed its hungry and what role is the U.S. playing?
Students read global news articles and design a mock campaign addressing the issue of driving under the influence.
This lesson asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a water crisis in China. Students use digital resources and practice cooperative learning and writing skills.
In this lesson, using Pulitzer Center journalism resources, we'll examine air pollution around the world.
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
Objective: to allow students to explore the interplay between China’s politics, environmentalism and Tibetan Buddhism. Lesson length: 50 minutes.
Students will explore the potential impact of Pope Francis's call for ecological preservation and contrast trends in China that are prompting Buddhists there to be better environmental stewards.
After a series of chats with Pulitzer Center journalists, students reflect on the experience in a creative yet relevant form of writing by producing a blog post.
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
Students will be able to identify the push and pull factors of Chinese migrant workers, analyze their living conditions in Beijing.
Using multiple reporting projects from our Climate Change Gateway, this lesson explores the responses of various communities worldwide to a changing climate....