Technology
Chinese Food-Delivery Workers, Unite!
AI-driven food-delivery platforms create greater distrust and labor unrest among gig workers.
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Collaboration
The Cooperation Imperative
Modern China calls for economic cooperation between China and the West.
Nonprofits & NGOs
COVID-19 and Chinese Civil Society’s Response
An outpouring of aid from nonprofits, foundations, and businesses in the nation first to face the epidemic provide some lessons and caveats for other regions now dealing with similar challenges.
Civic Engagement
Civic Health and Social Distancing
Good civic health looks like people making meaningful connections with their neighbors, public officials, and contributing to governance decision-making. But what will become of civic life during COVID-19 Part of the series Rethinking Social Change in the Face of Coronavirus.
Human Rights
Umbrella Soldiers
As both a symbol and a tool, the umbrellas used by Hong Kong protesters serve as a cunning accomplice in their fight to sustain democracy.
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Government
Rethinking Democracy, the Social Contract, and Globalization
Renovating Democracy explores how the digital revolution has irrevocably altered how we engage with participatory democracy and with how democracy works for us.
Collaboration
Mobile Innovators
Diasporan communities have too often been overlooked in business ventures aimed at both increasing profit and providing social good. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.
Philanthropy & Funding
China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy
Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.
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Economic Development
Not Just Copycats
A new book on Chinese entrepreneurs breaks through stereotypes and offers a more comprehensive view of innovation in China.
Economic Development
To Spread Prosperity Further, Philanthropy Should Take Lessons From China
Philanthropic and social change organizations have much to learn from China's success with alleviating poverty through reforms targeting entrepreneurialism, governance, businesses, and women.