Below I chose some links from Chinese media and I hope you can have a better understanding of Chinese society. Although they are in Chinese, you can get help from google translate and every chart has related description in text so that you can tell what the chart is about.
- The first one is about buying milk powder from outside China using various visualisation based on data from different sources like authorities, global institutions and other open-source information that maps a overall look of what it is like concerning Chinese people’s thoughts towards powder security home and abroad.
- The second one is about how fishermen in one Chinese city suffer from the policies that did not have hearings in advance about their life-making alternatives using timeline to show how policies went, adapting charts and tables to map the overall situation of fishermen and performing individual interviews to tell how real stories of people’s life under such situations differ from government documents.
- Thirdly, it is child sexual abuse analysis report. Data come from open sources like news reports, academic studies, court case database to form the analysis report with quotes and stories of famous cases providing not only case investigation but reason analysis.
- The fourth one tells that the majority of young people in China are struggling with their life with low income in 2023. Data are from questionnaires-which as we say, human sources-covering metropolis and small towns to finalize this report. And they made a video to give introduction of the status quo, which is far more convicing than the reports from government authorities.
- Next is about how Chinese people find it hard to have proper words to better express themselves due to the spread of internet. Good things are that the authors analyzed the search trends of aphasia(just to refer to this phenomenon in this article, not about the real disease) and open-source data and did interviews with many of them to scale the profile and made intuitive charts of netizen number and online time. Yet they cannot provide direct proof in between since more time using the internet does not necessarily mean less time socializing, taking social network as an example. But that is not their fault. The problem is that Chinese government has maybe the most strict restriction on freedom of speech(the second to last to DPRK, according to RSF 2023 report) that set terror among people’s minds to stop them talking because one never knows which sentence could lead to being sentenced, especially during the same time of nationalism rising high when stating facts of Chinese need improvement would be regarded as a crime of “harming national feeling and dignity”.
- The last one is not that heavy but more intuitive and interactive in visualisation. By clicking different gender and sex gruop you can see the particular cancer rates among them. Yet the problem is that the chart gives merely the rank of cancer rates not the specific rate number.
In the end I do picked 3 in English pdf(due to paywall), of which the first two I think are good examples since they provide professional intuitive analysis instead of interactive ones that try to immerse the readers and another one about Gaza population profile just like another one published by FT, too, concerning Ukarine, only to downscale the coverage.