Tag Archives: Guangdong

2025: Religious Oppression in China — Zion Church

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

China has long severely restricted religious activity and preaching. Religious leaders and congregations must accept the leadership of the Party and the state even in matter touching on religious belief and reject foreign funding and support. How this has worked … Continue reading →

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2025: Chinese Provinces Trade, Assistance in Africa

Posted on 07/24/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China’s province – African country pairings are fascinating. They likely work off the same template as the PRC domestic pairings of rich coastal provinces with impoverished counties in the interior. These pairings were also used to help badly-affected Sichuan counties … Continue reading →

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2020: Zhou Enlai Was Furious After Attack on Xi’s Dad Xi Zhongxun Saying “This is a National Disgrace”

Posted on 04/19/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

From the Hebei Province Communist Party Committee Party History Office comes this article on the ups and downs of the career of Xi Jinping’s Dad Xi Zhongxun. This article credits Xi Zhongxun with proposing the establishment of Special Economic Zones, … Continue reading →

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Sichuan Food and Hunan Food

Posted on 09/15/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ran Yunfei in his 2009 book  Wu Yu: A Life in the Republican Era 1911 – 1949  吴虞和他生活的民国时代   examined the many diaries of Prof. Wu Yu of Sichuan University (known in the May 4th era as a critic of Confucius), mining … Continue reading →

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微博评论广东省陆丰市乌坎事件 III 12/19日

Posted on 12/19/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

要永辉: //@袁裕来律师: 用重兵围困一个村子,意欲何为?! (10秒前) 举报| 转发 What is the meaning of surrounding a village with massive forces? Yeohhelen: 历次变革的重要起因就是农民失去土地 //@王功权: (30秒前) 举报| 转发 浅礁: 革命在进行中~ (40秒前) 举报| 转发 Important changes throughout history have been caused by peasants losing their land. … Continue reading →

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2011: Sina Microblogs on the Wukan Incident December 17, 2011 Part II

Posted on 12/17/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Searches on the village name ‘Wukan’ were blocked the morning of 12/17 Beijing time except for one stray. I notice that some microblogs which still carry much material on Wukan so I am translating or summarizing some of it here … Continue reading →

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2011: Translations from Selected Sina Microblogs on Wukan Village Incident Part I

Posted on 12/17/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translations from Selected Sina Microblogs on Wukan Village Incident December 16, 2011 Qu wat: #Wukan Village# The escalation of the Wukan Village incident this December has become the banner of our desire for freedom. This is the kind of mass … Continue reading →

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