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1993 – 2016: (16) : “Humanity’s Transition to Communism is Inevitable”, Chapter Sixteen of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

Posted on 02/18/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Summary Chapter 16 of The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science Wang Huning, then Fudan University professor and leader of the early 1990s The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science project and today politburo member and leader … Continue reading →

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2006: Overseas Chinese Scholars Critique the Restless Climate at China’s Universities

Posted on 02/16/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The thinking and political/economic systems that Chinese people share has changed with unsettling speed over the past generation or two. This is reflected in changes in China’s science and technology system. — a difficult process involving many dependencies between scientific, … Continue reading →

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2025 Revision: Chinese Language Study and Translation Tools

Posted on 06/17/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Intermediate and advanced professional learners of Chinese at some point may want to look for Chinese-language materials in their areas of interest. Large Language Model AIs have greatly improved the quality of machine translation recently. An example is the ChatGPT4o … Continue reading →

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2024: All Sages Books Beijing Bestsellers and Recent (Old) Books

Posted on 12/26/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is the revised version of this survey. I found that ChatGPT4o on the bestseller list at All Sages Books had difficulty finding the author and generating a useful summary with only the Chinese title to work on. (I imagine … Continue reading →

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1958: Party’s “Rightist” Speech Collection Published After the Hundred Flowers Campaign

Posted on 10/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Just imagine yourself as Chairman Mao or even one of the Party cadres boundlessly loyal to Chairman Mao getting a copy of the material published in this this book. Those criticisms by the many students, professors and others who spoke … Continue reading →

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2013: Critique of Historical Materialism in PRC Archaeology

Posted on 12/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Lately I’ve been reading Chinese articles on archaeological discoveries and how they have been changing the accepted picture of China’s past. Stressed also is historical materialism that informs how those discoveries are understood by the Party and apparently also by … Continue reading →

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2023: Chinese on Chinese Political Science

Posted on 11/26/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China as a country is unique, in the way that Australia spans two major categories, country and continent, — China is both a single country (as the old saying goes, if divided it must unify; if unified it must divide … Continue reading →

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2023: Southern Weekend on US Historian Elizabeth J. Perry

Posted on 11/16/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Guangdong Communist Party Committee newspaper-format weekly Southern Weekend Nanfang Zhoumo interviewed US historian of modern China Elizabeth J. Perry and published this article about her life and academic career. In his article 2019 Ran Yunfei: 1st Rate Scholarship on … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Administrative Law Decisions Taken Offline

Posted on 04/01/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In parallel to the fading availability of administrative law cases in China, there is also the security and anti-monopoly investigations and pressure that China’s large academic database, CNKI [China National Knowledge Infrastructure faces. The gradual decline in access to a … Continue reading →

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2022: Yang Kuisong on the Disappearance of Chinese Intellectuals

Posted on 03/21/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Talking about freedom of thought in China can be sensitive. Here international relations scholar Yang Kuisong , concurrently professor at East China Normal University and Peking University, manages to do it without talking about the Communist Party or restrictions on … Continue reading →

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