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2026: Xiaopa Silenced: A Single Critique Labeled as Opposition—A Woman’s Voice Should Not Be Silenced

Posted on 03/02/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As elsewhere, social and legal norms made for especially strict controls on women in the PRC. China’s fertility planning –a better translation for the Chinese words ‘family planning’ jihua shengyu would be planned fertility. Analogous to state economic planning this … Continue reading →

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2026: Taiwan Media on PRC Reaction to Venezuelan President’s Kidnapping — “Zhongnanhai” is Missing!

Posted on 01/30/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PRC media reaction to the US kidnapping of the president of Venezuela: PRC state media (Xinhua / People’s Daily / “钟声” “The China Bell Tolls” group pseudonymous commentaries in People’s Daily) consistent line: Today I heard Professor Wu Guoguang, Senior … Continue reading →

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2017: Chinese Professor Li Ling on George Orwell’s Anti-Soviet Novels “Animal Farm” and “1984”

Posted on 09/17/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When I lived in China I would come across 1984 in Chinese bookstores and wonder why the Party didn’t take it personally (or partily?). The answer is that Orwell’s books were taken as anti-Soviet rather than as anti-communist. His books … Continue reading →

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2015 – 2025: Anime Bans in China and Other Countries

Posted on 08/02/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I saw a 2015 PRC Ministry of Culture list on Twitter/X of animation products banned in China. This list was cited on a sign at the August 1, 2025 Shanghai China Joy 2025动漫节 Animation and Manhua Festival. The 2015 list … 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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2025: Hunan Xiangya Hospital Whistleblower Murder Case Exposed, Ongoing Suppression by Censors — ChatGPT Search Tool Example

Posted on 06/16/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is a presentation, through ChatGPT4o search results in Chinese and English, of the dramatic ongoing 2024 Luo Shiyu 罗帅宇 Hunan Xiangya Second Hospital 中南大学湘雅二医院 whistleblower murder case (the authorities say it was suicide, there is some evidence to the … Continue reading →

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2024: Zhou Tianyong on Detaining Businesspeople to Extort Fees to Boost Local Government Revenues (censored)

Posted on 09/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Two recent articles (June and September 2024) article by Zhou Tianyong, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Strategy at the Central Party School. These two seem to cut too close to the bone and have disappeared from Zhou Tianyong’s … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLII: Late 80s Democracy Movement to June Fourth and Aftermath

Posted on 07/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find table of contents chapter links 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  Chapter 8 Late 80s Protests to June Fourth and Aftermath Deng Xiaoping’s reform and … Continue reading →

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2024: VOA — PRC Cyber Police Identifying Followers of Overseas Critic

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading material on the Internet is increasingly being criminalized. Once spreading information like Ruan Xiaohuan (2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted) deemed false, harmful or unhealthy could get you into trouble. Simply reading it not so much. That … Continue reading →

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2023: Mao at 130 — God or Dried Meat?

Posted on 12/27/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Two “Mao” translations for Mao’s 130th birthday: A CCTV 1, the general programming channel of the PRC state broadcaster  (one of the 50 or so CCTV broadcast channels) newscast on December 26 reported on Mao Zedong’s 130th birthday. The report mentioned … Continue reading →

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