在喀什地区，少数民族手工艺品市场营销的现状与挑战是什么样的？
作者：魏淑媛 朱昱霖 徐玮鸿
“国家级历史文化名城”。在这里，有大量的少数民族手工艺品，包括了乐器、木器、陶器等。这些手工艺品具有丰富的异域特色，凝聚了浓重的西域文化。然而，它们近年来的推广、销售情况并不是非常理想。 Continue reading 在喀什地区，少数民族手工艺品市场营销的现状与挑战是什么样的？
Category: Society and culture
Indigenous Women in Peru: Challenges and Hopes
By Jessica Jiang, Grace Zhang, and Liana Shi
“If you could be reborn, would you want to be a woman again?” A world-renowned survey agency, Ipsos, asked this question in Peru, and nearly 1/3 of the women in Southeastern Peru answered “No”. Continue reading Indigenous Women in Peru: Challenges and Hopes
Yiwu, which course will you follow?
By Wayne Huang, Frank Xu, Christina Liu
Legend, opportunity, and fortune are gathering on this territory- Yiwu, China.
Here lies the most lavish scale small commodity market and the highest mailing demand. This land also suffers from material deficiency and labor shortage. Most significantly, here lives a group of diligent people who have been writing the epics of the city since the 1980s. Continue reading Yiwu, which course will you follow?
WeChat in Yiwu：The Front Desk in the “International Hostel”?
By Sile Huang, Songjie Zhou, Yichi Zhang, Xinyan Wang
As the door cracks open with an electronic tune, Jason finally arrives at the hotel. Walking into the washroom, Jason sits down, reaches for toilet paper, before touching a metal pipe, a sprinkler attached on top. At the table in a Turkish restaurant, Jason excitedly flips through the menu as he has heard long before this trip how it is known for its savory Turkish cuisine, before encountering a panel of five different languages. Jason fishes through the list, finally finds the familiar English word that he could understand, only to realize how this five-line panel is all describing a single dish. Continue reading WeChat in Yiwu：The Front Desk in the “International Hostel”?
Poverty vs Plight: The true condition of Pneumoconiosis patients in Pingxiang
By Haoran Su, Zheng Quan, Keren Liu, Zhenye Lin, Jiahao Deng
“We cannot ignore those who fall down when the whole country is moving forward,” said the famous director Zhangke Jia. Those who suffer from pneumoconiosis are exactly the group who are being ignored. Pneumoconiosis is a chronic lung disease, which mainly results from a long time working in a dusty environment. The disease is severely underestimated. Because many patients have either seldom received sufficient focus from society or enough financial support to eliminate these obstacles till now, that finally traps them into disadvantages. Continue reading Poverty vs Plight: The true condition of Pneumoconiosis patients in Pingxiang
