Commentary
After China announced the results of its seventh national census, various criticisms immediately followed, mostly focusing on the serious distortion of facts.
People walk through an alley near Houhai lake in Beijing, China, on May 4, 2021. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
|Updated:
He Qinglian
Author
He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
