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2025: 16K Violations of Central Eight-Point Guidelines Were Investigated China-wide in January

Posted on 05/08/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Just one month after Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012 the Politburo approved the bureaucratism and corruption-fighting “Eight Provisions on Improving Work Style and Maintaining Close Ties with the Masses.” As with other … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XL: Despite CCP Policy, Confiscated Private Home Never Returned

Posted on 06/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  6. Seizing Private Residences Starting from 1987, during the nationwide rectification of unjust, false, and wrongful … Continue reading →

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2019: PRC Official Drinking Culture: County Officials

Posted on 04/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Social science research by Chinese scholars at its best combines the best of world analytical tools with the cultural understanding of ‘native speakers’ of the local political and social cultures and traditions. Much of this work is encrypted in the … Continue reading →

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2000: NPC — Village is Not a Level of PRC Government

Posted on 02/02/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When I read about villages and governance in China, I sometimes see statements in western publications that the villages either is or is not not the lowest level of government in the PRC. In the 2005 book 《中华人民共和国政治制度》[The Political System … Continue reading →

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Xu Zhangrun: The People are Angry and No Longer Afraid

Posted on 03/11/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Back in early February, Geremie R. Barmé translated this essay by Tsinghua University Law School Professor Xu Zhangrun. Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear — An Essay by Xu Zhangrun, Translated and Annotated by Geremie R. Barmé This essay made … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #38: The 42nd Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 4, 2020

Posted on 03/04/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 4 The Forty-second Day of the Wuhan City Closure As of today, the Wuhan city closure has already lasted three half-months. Yesterday, the number of new confirmed cases fell to one hundred. Many people got very excited hoping that … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #15: The Nineteenth Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 10, 2020

Posted on 02/12/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 10 The 19th Day of the Wuhan City Closure I got up early today to watch the Oscar Academy Awards. Congratulations to Director Feng Junhao for winning 4 awards. Although the director Feng Junhao is not my favorite Korean … Continue reading →

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2011: How to Write Chinese Internal Communist Party and Government Information Reports

Posted on 09/11/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This article presented below in summary translation discusses how to write for internal confidential Chinese Communist Party and PRC government bulletins and reports gives insights into the characteristics Communist Party’s internal information system (many Chinese journalists write for both the … Continue reading →

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2007: China’s Civil Service — Some Sources

Posted on 09/01/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese senior civil servants move all around China and in and out of major state enterprises as well as various government departments of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. American civil servants don’t rotate … Continue reading →

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外国人为了了解中国官僚文化必读之书：参谋助力论－－为首长服务的艺术

Posted on 12/18/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The 1994 book The Art of Serving Military Leaders is much talked about on Chinese websites.  It was aimed at aides of any level of PLA leaders, but also applies I suspect to personal secretaries of government and party officials.  Not the … Continue reading →

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