I'm Yilin Chen, a junior at Rice University. I'm currently taking a "Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities" class and will be interested in contributing to a wide variety of course-related topics such as social inequality and human rights issues, especially those on religious freedom and women's rights in contemporary China.

Yilin Chen

Here are two topics I'm currently considering working on:

1. Women’s Health in China The current article has a workable outline that covers “economic context in China”, “healthcare policies”, and “women’s health outcome”. I will work on the third section, which is lacking updates and scholarly evidence. I’d like to expand the sub-section “reproductive health,” especially to include more cultural perspectives (e.g. news events) on how women’s reproductive health is significantly impacted by their role/status within households. I also intend to substitute the other sub-section “HIV/AIDS” with a more general one “sexual health.”

References

 Allen, Kerry. "Chinese debate medical rights after pregnant woman's   
 suicide." BBC News. September 07, 2017. Accessed September 19,  
 2017. 

 Zhenzhen, Zheng. "Women’s Empowerment In Reproductive Health In 
 China: Searching And Practice." Sexual and Reproductive Health in 
 China: 37-68. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004182424.i-360.18.

  Zheng, Zhenzhen, and Pengling Lian. "Health vulnerability among 
  temporary migrants in urban China." In XXV International 
  Population Conference, pp. 18-23. 2005.

  Wu, Zheng, Shuzhuo Li, Christoph M. Schimmele, Yan Wei, Quanbao    
  Jiang, and Zhen Guo. "Community-Level Effects on the Use of 
  Reproductive Health Services in Rural China." Low Fertility and 
  Reproductive Health in East Asia, 2014, 187-209.    
  doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9226-4_10.

  Blanc, Ann K. "The effect of power in sexual relationships on sexual and 
  reproductive health: an examination of the evidence." Studies in 
  family planning 32, no. 3 (2001): 189-213.

  Fang, Jing, and Joan Kaufman. "Reproductive health in China: improve 
  the means to the end." The Lancet 372, no. 9650 (2008): 1619.

2. Freedom of Religion in China The current article approaches the topic through each of main religions present in modern China and I’d like to expand the section on Buddhism. Firstly, I’d like to re-arrange the “Tibetan Buddhism” section in a clearer, chronological way and then expand. Secondly, I will add a “Zen Buddhism” section to more fully represent the major forms of Buddhism in modern China and show nuances on how Chinese government treat these two schools differently.

References

  Potter, Pitman B. "Belief in control: Regulation of religion in China." The 
  China Quarterly 174 (2003): 317-337.

  Kolodner, Eric. "Religious rights in China: a comparison of international 
  human rights law and Chinese domestic legislation." Hum. Rts. Q. 16 (1994): 455.

  Yang, Fenggang. Religion in China: Survival and revival under 
  communist rule. Oxford University Press, 2011.

  Sperling, Elliot. "The Tibet-China conflict: history and polemics." Policy  
  studies 7 (2004): III.

  Yeh, Emily T. "Tibetan range wars: spatial politics and authority on the 
  grasslands of Amdo." Development and change 34, no. 3 (2003):   
  499-523.