Gloria Davies

Jeremy Goldkorn

Luigi Tomba

Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health.¬†The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution¬†looks at how China‚Äôs Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution. This Yearbook also explores the broader ramifications of pollution in the People‚Äôs Republic for culture, society law and social activism, as well as the Internet, language, thought, and approaches to history. It looks at how it affects economic and political developments, urban change, and China‚Äôs regional and global posture. The Chinese Communist Party, led by ‚ÄòChairman of Everything‚Äô Xi Jinping, meanwhile, has subjected mainland society to increasingly repressive control in its new determination to rid the country of Western ‚Äòspiritual pollutants‚Äô while achieving cultural purification through ‚Äòpropaganda and ideological work‚Äô. To adulterate, contaminate, spoil or violate‚Äîthese are among the metaphorical and literal connotations of pollution expressed in this Yearbook via the character ran Êüì, which forms part of the word for pollution in Chinese, wuran Ê±°Êüì. As the world increasingly relies on economic ties with China, the complexities of China‚Äôs one-party system and the Chinese government‚Äôs attitudes towards ‚Äòpollution‚Äô are of increasing global significance.

Pollution: China Story Yearbook 2015

Gloria Davies, Jeremy Goldkorn, Luigi Tomba

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