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Contemporary Chinese Society, Culture, Public Health, and Education

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A proper analysis of China’s future must also be shaped by our understanding of the wider domestic drivers of continuity and change. The Center for China Analysis’ (CCA) Society, Culture, Public Health, and Education pillar is structured through distinct projects that engage fellows in the broader study of contemporary China and help evaluate and improve the study of Sinology. Under the constraints of today’s great power competition, closed borders, and increasing geopolitical hostilities, it is easy for the human dimension of the study of China to become obscured or lost within the dominant geopolitical and strategic discourse.

This is both dangerous and largely uncontested. The CCA aims to provide a platform that reckons with the real lives and minds of ordinary people living and working across China, struggling with the day-to-day challenges of life. Through quantitative and qualitative research, disseminated in the form of commentaries, papers, and lectures, fellows seek to present the multiple challenges and some of the continuing joys of living in China today, through the proper investigation of underlying social, cultural, and ideational trends.

Featured Initiatives

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    The 19 Percent

    Led by Barclay Bram, Junior Fellow on Chinese Society at the Center for China Analysis, The 19 Percent is a pioneering project structured around the stark number of 19.3%: the youth unemployment rate in China as of mid-2022.
  • Cure4Cancer

    Cure4Cancer

    To accelerate the eradication of cancer (or, to find a cure for cancer), with multi-stakeholder, multi-regional collaboration, which is focused on patient-centric clinical trials and international regulatory harmonization.

Recent Analysis

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    The Explosive Rise of Psychotherapy in China

    In his second paper of The 19 Percent paper series, Barclay Bram writes about the explosive rise of psychotherapy in China.
  • Chinese jobseekers in search of jobs at an employment fair in Beijing 27 February 2007.
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    Involution: The Generation Turning Inward and Away From Xi’s Chinese Dream

    Barclay Bram writes about the effects of poor economic outlook and high inequality on Chinese youth.

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Susan Jakes

Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director, ChinaFile, and Senior Fellow, Center for China Analysis
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Dr. Bob Li

Senior Fellow, Global Public Health
Dorrance Smith
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Dorrance Smith

Senior Fellow, Global Public Health
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Barclay Bram

Junior Fellow, Chinese Society
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