Every nation has to deal with the horrifying issue of human trafficking in one way or another, but the nature of human trafficking in China is relatively unique. While China does have problems with kidnapping and sex trafficking, it also has a black market where women and children are sold and bought by desperate families by middlemen posing as matchmakers or pseudo-adoption agencies.

What is the nature of the trafficking of children and women in China? How does this market interact with Chinese culture and Confucian society? How does the prevalence of social media affect how these cases are dealt with by authorities?

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:30 Background cases: Liu Xuezhou & Xiao Huamei
10:30 Trafficking of Women
24:30 Trafficking of Children
32:00 Justice for victims in the social media age
43:20 Next episode

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Sources

Child Trafficking in China, Quanbao Jiang and Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte

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Evidence of Son Preference in the Child Trafficking Market for Illegal Adoption in China, Wanru Xiong

Female Perpetrators in Internal Child Trafficking in China: An Empirical Study, Anqi Shen

Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences, Yiwei Xia, Yisu Zhou, Li Du & Tianji Cai

Marriage Trafficking: Demand, Exploitation, and Conducive Contexts—A Study in China–Vietnam Border Areas, Xiaochen Liang

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Liu Xuezhou: Outrage over death of 'twice abandoned' China teen, BBC

China’s Human Trafficking Problem Goes Far Beyond the ‘Chained Woman’, Sixth Tone

As a Long-Lost Son is Found, a Dilemma: Arrest His Other Parents?, Sixth 
Tone

Policymakers, lawmakers respond to opinion voiced online, China Daily

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