​TFF HumanJournal
Here at TFF HumanJournal, we believe politics and policies have never been just about the big topics centering around Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. We aim to present the oftentimes unknown and anonymous individual experiences – that are shaped by, and, in another way around, reflect each and every decision made by names who occupy the news headlines.
Beijing Unfolded
Noah Liu
The Drying up of Social Security, Hukou’s controversy, Youth Unemployment, Education Reform…you will probably not find any of these issues unfamiliar if you were an active Chinese society observer in the past few years. In Noah’s journal, however, these dots would be connected and unfolded in a sequence, in one single narrative about her Beijing housekeeper’s life and family.
We present Noah’s work as an “extra” because it does not entirely fits the journalistic genre we typically presents here at TFF HumanJournal. Nonetheless, what we are presenting is a story coming sincerely from her and about someone she deeply cares.
And, it reminds us that those issues are there on the table — they go nowhere no matter how many times we hear them or see them being erased from the headlines — affecting the livelihoods of millions of Chinese. Like any other “normal’ issues of HumanJournal presents, this time Noah writes deep into and beyond the lives of individuals.
Tale of Two Urban Villages
Olivia Zheng
"Shenzhen's high housing prices have long squeezed the living space of migrants, but the low cost of living in urban villages provides shelter for those drifting in Shenzhen. If Shenzhen is a city of dreams, then urban villages are incubators of grand dreams. Although the living environment is dirty and chaotic, with safety hazards, the inclusive image of the city provides living space for the grassroots...The policy originally planned to implement would be like a broom sweeping away the lower classes. But fortunately, it has now been suspended."
A Tel Aviv House of Solidarity
Tommy Kuang
October 8, 2023 is the day Raymond plans to depart from China and return to Israel. He had just finished his two-month summer vacation and was preparing to start his sophomore year at Tel Aviv University.​
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Less than 24 hours before his scheduled flight, an "Al-Aqsa flood" ripped through the northeast corner of the Sinai Peninsula without warning. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and the holiday of Sukkot, Palestinian nationalist forces led by Hamas - terrorists under U.S. and European Union law - unleashed an unprecedented barrage of rockets on Israel, followed by an advance of ground troops that killed thousands of Israeli civilians.
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