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2025: People’s Daily Commentary on Japanese PM Statement that Taiwan Straits Conflict Would be an Existential Threat to Japan, MOFA 11/14 Statement, Japanese Language Tweet

Posted on 11/14/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An authoritative People’s Daily November 14, 2025 commentary criticizing Japan’s position on Taiwan came out just a few days after the Japanese Consul General in Osaka suggested that the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi‘s head should be cut off because … Continue reading →

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2025: Two More PD Economy Commentaries Make Eight

Posted on 10/11/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Far below are two more People’s Daily commentator articles on the Chinese economy apparently by an official commentary work group appearing under the pseudonym Zhong Caiwen for an official commentary group. See 2025: People’s Daily Commentary — Some Economic Difficulties … Continue reading →

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2025: People’s Daily Commentary Beware Slanders Against Returned Student Talent

Posted on 07/06/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese students get it from both sides. Sometimes suspected of being Chinese spies abroad, they can also be suspected of being American spies or being failures who had no choice but to retreat back to China. The steady decline in … Continue reading →

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2025: Party Journal — Xi Jinping on Party Member Conduct

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

Reading the statements of China’s leader Xi Jinping in the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological journal Qiushi reminds me of reading and ancient text together with the explanation of each sentence or longer passage by learned commentators. A Sharp Ideological Weapon … Continue reading →

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Neo-Daoist Classic Guan Yinzi Chapter Three 關尹子/3

Posted on 04/16/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

On to Chapter 3! The more I work on this, the more I see it as a text for meditation. So I translated it into prose and from there transposed it into free verse. I’ve been reading more about Daoism … Continue reading →

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2023 Party Core Reading: Xi on Chinese Modernization

Posted on 07/05/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

If you missed the study sessions offered by your local Party branch, this core reading from the tongue of  the Party, People’s Daily, can help you catch up. See the CV of article author Huang Yibing below for more recommended reading. … Continue reading →

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1000 BCE：Book of Poetry #12: The Magpie’s Nest

Posted on 06/26/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

How times have changed! When I started studying Chinese, in the last days of the Mao Dynasty (Mao’s son Mao Anying was killed during the Korean War supposedly when, against advice, he left shelter to go out and cook egg … Continue reading →

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The Book of Poetry’s Wandering Goddess of Wuhan: Mortal or Goddess or Both?

Posted on 06/21/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In reading ancient Chinese texts, be they medical texts like the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon of Medicine Huangdi Neijing 皇帝内经 or ancient philosophical or literary texts like the Book of Odes aka Book of Poetry aka Book of Songs Shijing … Continue reading →

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1928: Qian Mu on Confucius and the Status of His Doctrine

Posted on 05/20/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Qian Mu (錢穆 aka Ch’ien Mu) was one of the top Chinese classical scholars of the 20th Century. Translated below is a 1928 lecture on Confucius that Qian Mu gave to students in Suzhou. We see in his presentation how … Continue reading →

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1978: Hu Fuming’s “Practice is the Sole Criterion of Truth” and his Retrospective

Posted on 01/03/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Nice interview with Hu Fuming, lead drafter of the historic 1978 Guangming Ribao commentary “Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth” pointing out Mao and Party aren’t necessarily always right. What a heretical thought! During the early post-Mao days after … Continue reading →

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