Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Institute of Chinese Studies New Delhi), Ms. Prateeksha Tiwari (Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi), Ms. Shruti Jargad (Institute of Chinese Studies New Delhi), Ms. Niharika Ravi (NMIMS), Ms. Snigdha Konar (Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi), Prof. Akhil Ranjan Dutta (Gauhati University), Dr. Bhim Subba (University of Hyderabad)

In her paper, “Imagining the Digital Public Sphere in Xi’s China: Looking at the #Metoo Movement Through the Eyes of Castells and Habermas”, Ms. Pratiksha Tiwari analyses the intersections of China’s bustling online spaces with people’s socioeconomic lives to examine the kind of identities, coalitions, and conflicts which arise. In “Recruitment Strategy of the Chinese Communist Party in the Xi Era”, Ms. Shruti Jargad covers Xi’s new recruitment strategy, which is crucial to maintain effective governance at the grassroots while setting standards of behaviour. In “Feminism, Expansionism, and Population Control in China: How the Utilitarian One-Child Policy is Still a Women’s Rights Nightmare”, Ms. Niharika Ravi explores the failures of soft law in dealing with China’s archaic and pejorative outlook on motherhood. In “Womb Politics in China: Abortions, Sterilizations and Surrogacy in Sheng Keyi's Fiction”, Snigdha Konar discusses the exploitation of women in order to control population.