Tag Archives: Yu Jianrong

Abducted boy goes home, but “sister” remains separated from birth family

Posted on 2011-02-11 by Alice Xin Liu

The story of Peng Xinle (彭心乐) has been going around in the news. Due to Phoenix journalist Deng Fei, who helped Peng’s father re-post the lost boy’s picture on Sina weibo. This has coincided with Yu Jianrong, a professor at the China Academy of Social Science, and his campaign on Sina weibo to get child beggars reunited with parents in cases of trafficking. Although it has been faced with some criticism, right now at least six children have been reunited.

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The controversy of the 29-year-old mayor

Posted on 2009-06-26 by Alice Xin Liu

The election of 29-year-old mayor, Zhou Senfeng in the city of Yicheng, Hubei province has sparked debates in the Chinese media and online blogs, some commenting on whether his youthful election is because of family and political background.

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Who’s the real victim of “zero tolerance” for petitions?

Posted on 2009-04-15 by Joel Martinsen

Xinhua’s China Comment publishes a complaint by a village petitions official. Yu Jianrong responds.

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Yu Jianrong: Farmers have the right to keep land for themselves

Posted on 2008-10-27 by Joel Martinsen

Sociologist Yu Jianrong tells Southern Metropolis Weekly that the new rural land rights policy doesn’t really mean much.

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