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1999: Rights Activist Liu Nianchun Interview “For the Rights of Chinese Workers”

Posted on 09/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Nianchun paid for his years of democracy activism in China with six years of imprisonment. He and his family were allowed to leave China on his ‘medical parole’ in December 1998. Liu Nianchun lives in New York City. He … Continue reading →

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2024: Latest Iteration of Reforms to Break Down Barriers Between Party and Government Bodies

Posted on 03/02/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

One of the signature initiatives of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping is increasing Party oversight and direction of PRC state agencies. Reforms of Party and government organizations and reporting lines from government to Party have been evolving; these … Continue reading →

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2023: The Past, Present and Future of Chinese Economics 

Posted on 12/23/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This article by Peking University Professor Yao Yang, calling for a greater focus on understanding Chinese domestic economic issues rather than theoretical issues reminds just slightly of the July 2023 article by Su Changhe, Dean of the School of International … Continue reading →

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2022: Zhao Shukai Calls for Politics-Free Historical Research

Posted on 09/29/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Rural China where most of China’s people still live and  rural governance across the long histories of the many states that have occupied the Central Plains since very early ‘barbarian peoples’ coalesced into. assimilated others into and inherited what is … Continue reading →

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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 →

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3/2021: Twenty-two PRC Government Departments on Stamping Out Illegal Social Organizations

Posted on 04/10/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Comrades, we all have our part to play.  Fighting perfidious historians — those historical nihilists with their subversive hidden agendas is part of the larger fight against reactionary factions that threaten to spread like a cancer throughout the socialist body. [see 2016: … Continue reading →

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Basic Cell of First-half PRC Economic and Political Organization: The Work Unit

Posted on 03/05/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The unit or work unit (gongzuo danwei 工作单位） was a key feature of the first half of the PRC’s history although it faded away after the Second Founding of the PRC led by Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping and others. One … Continue reading →

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From Yang Jisheng’s Book: China’s Workers on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution

Posted on 03/03/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

These days I have been reading Yang Jisheng’s 【楊繼繩】 massive book 天地翻覆——中國文化大革命史 (上篇) [The World Turned Upside Down — the History of China’s Cultural Revolution]. I just came across a nice capsule description of the China’s post-1949 unit system for … Continue reading →

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2010: Tibet — From Patriotic Education to Building Long-term Monastery Management Mechanisms

Posted on 02/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

 Here is a translation of 2010 article from the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Party School Professor Gong Xuezeng on how to bring Tibetan monks and nuns who follow the Dalai Lama under control. Explains monastery control methods implemented over past … Continue reading →

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Has Google Translate Been Brainwashed with Xi Jinping Thought?

Posted on 01/17/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A foolish headline. Maybe that’s the goal; this is just a baby step. Twitter today had messages warning about an apparent subversion of Google Translate. If you write China breaks promise the Chinese translation is China keeps promise. 中国信守诺言 If you … Continue reading →

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