Lijia Zhang's Blog, page 30

The Pankhursts

One of the many wonderful things about living in London is that you get to meet all sorts of interesting and fabulous poeple. today I had the great honour and pleasure to have coffee with Helen Pankurst, the renowned women’s rights activist and writer. She is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankurst and the granddaughter of Sylvia Pankurst, both prominent leaders in the British Suffragett movement. When I was in Ethiopia a few years ago, I visited the tomb of Sylvia Pankurst – an anti-colonialist, she spent much of her later life in the country, upon the emperor’s invitation. Back then, I enjoyed meeting Helen’s brother while Helen herself was abroad, promoting the movie Suffragette, to which she was a consultant. Now we finally managed to meet up in London! do check out the fascinating stories of the Pankursts!

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40 years reforms and opening up

Last night at an event organized by Beijing Internations Society, I had the great honour and pleasure to share a stage with Pulitzer winning journalist and author Ian Johnson, talking about the reforms and opening up. It was 40 years ago that Deng Xiaoping introduced the policy that dramatically transformed China from one of the poorest countries to the world second largest economy in the world. We focused on the 80s when Ian first made his way to China and a time of my coming of age. The most fascinating era in contemporary China.

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Remembering China’s left behind children on the ‘Children’s Day’

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2147787/left-behind-children-poignant-reminder-cost-chinas

Are Chinese Girls Easy

here’s an excellent piece by my friend Yajun.

https://supchina.com/2018/02/23/did-you-really-just-ask-me-are-chinese-girls-easy/

flattered by this review of Lotus by a reader

https://kevinmcgeary.com/2018/05/01/writing-from-east-to-west/

delighted to see some positive response to my New York Times video oped.

https://supchina.com/2018/04/24/rampant-sexist-job-ads-in-china-do-not-reflect-our-values-say-apologetic-tech-companies/

Helen Gao’s excellent piece on the demise of watch dog journalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/watchdog-journalism-china-oppression.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

my oped in SCMP in gender discrimination in employment

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2143108/gender-discrimination-china-resurfacing-employers-seek

my video essay in NYT on gender discrimination in employment

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005795093/chinese-tech-companies-dirty-secret.html

my oped in NYT on China’s left behind children

After all these years, the thrill of seeing a published article hasn’t vanished. I am particularly proud of this one as I feel passionate about the issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/china-left-behind-children.html