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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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Criticisms Censored: Netziens Ridicule Anti-Corruption Team Criticism of Young Heterosexual Cadres

Posted on 01/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PHOENIX｜Central Inspection Team Deputy-Minister Grade Cadre Wrote: Young cadres Should Reduce Heterosexual Interactions 12/27/2021 [Found on PRC Weibo social media by China Digital Times CDT Editor’s Note: The following content was originally published by Phoenix on its website and microblog. … Continue reading →

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Update: Censoring Aisixiang ‘Enjoying Intellectual Discussion’ Website — Two Articles

Posted on 11/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Enjoying Intellectual Discussion [Aisixiang] website has many intriguing articles.  A good place to read about what Chinese writers and scholars are talking about.  Several years ago, I mentioned two articles I had read there.   Revisiting this page four years … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #40 The 44th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 6, 2020

Posted on 03/08/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 6, 2020 The 44th Day of the Wuhan City Closure Fang Fang’s latest Wuhan closed city Diary was deleted from her public Weibo account. In her diary she discussed the video circulating on social media yesterday — during Deputy … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #29: The 33rd Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 24, 2020

Posted on 02/26/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 24th The 33rd day of the Wuhan City Closure It’s Monday again. I’ve never liked Mondays because it means I have to go to work. I didn’t think that one day I’d miss it and want to go to … 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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2009: Censored — Tang Xiyang’s A Green World Tour

Posted on 02/05/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

It can be so very hard to imagine what it could have been like to live in a totalitarian state. While I worked in the S&T section at U.S. Embassy Beijing in China, I knew the Chinese environmentalist Tang Xiyang.   … Continue reading →

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2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches

Posted on 09/30/2018 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Round-Table on Internet and Free Flow of Information in China Statement by David Cowhig, Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches Presented to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China April 15, 2002 I would like to share with you some thoughts about … Continue reading →

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2013 Deng Yuwen: Why Do So Few Chinese Have Regrets About the Cultural Revolution?

Posted on 09/06/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I found Deng Yuwen‘s   邓聿文 2013 article on the China Digital Times website “Why Do Chinese People Feel Regrets About Their Behavior During the Cultural Revolution” 邓聿文 | 中国人为何对文革少有忏悔 moving.  China media controls, the rationale for them —  the reluctance of leaders … Continue reading →

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2011: Debunked “Du Fu” Poem That Criticized Chinese Government Proved Prophetic

Posted on 08/11/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This poem misrepresented as Du Fu’s 杜甫《蜀中吟》seems to have been devised to plague the regime by some mischievous literary people. The noxious weed appeared on some Chinese websites this spring was detected by China’s literary guardians. Xiao Qiang’s China Digital … Continue reading →

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