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Fiction Award Prize Joke Reflects Local ‘Little Big Brother’ Corruption

Posted on 08/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China has a micro-fiction prize. This must have been the inspiration for the joke below. It is circulating online in the PRC. Imperial China had a rule of avoidance — officials were not allowed to be the top leader in … Continue reading →

Posted in Corruption 腐败, Literature 文学, Politics 政治, Society 社会 | Tagged Big Brother, center, center-periphery, Chengdu, China, Communist, Communist Party, Corruption 腐败, 笑话, 龙泉驿, Governance, humor, humour, industrial zone, internet, joke, Liu Qibao, local, local official, mayor, official, party secretary, PRC, Religion, Sichuan, Wen Jiabao, Xinhua, Yin Shuping, 四川, 幽默, 成都, 中国, 书记 | 7 Comments

2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches

Posted on 08/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Back in 2002, a half-year after my return from five years working in the science section of US Embassy Beijing, I wrote to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to share with them my views on the Internet and the control … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideology 思想, Media 媒体, Politics 政治 | Tagged AIDS, banned, Big Brother, Blood Wound, center-periphery, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Congressional-Executive Commission on Chinal-Exe, control, decentralization, Henan, HIV, internet, Issues and Ideology, little brother, local officials, Lu Xun, media, political system, politics, PRC, QIn Hui, regulations, State Council, 共产党, 中国 | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: center-periphery

Fiction Award Prize Joke Reflects Local ‘Little Big Brother’ Corruption

2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches

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