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2016: Lao Dongyan to Tsinghua Law School Grads — Strive to Be Someone Who Isn’t Easily Misled

Posted on 09/18/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The graduation speech by Professor Lao Dongyan 劳东燕 to the 2016 graduates of the Tsinghua University Law School. See also her article 2022: Chinese Law Prof’s Lament and Encouragement. This 2016 speech is no longer available on the Tsinghua University website … 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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2016: Sinology Russian and American: Translation and Poetry

Posted on 02/11/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The previous article China-Russia: Histories of ‘Spelling’ (pinyin) of Chinese in Russia and China discussed Russian Sinology in the context of Russian and Chinese efforts to devise a clear and easy-to-learn method of ‘spelling’ Chinese first for academic purposes and later to … 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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2022: Party Pragmatism, Party Totalitarianism and Rocks in the River

Posted on 12/15/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese Communist Party says reasonable things about learning from practice and then adjusting theory on the basis of experience in iterations of going between theory and practice. Somehow though, it seems that democratic centralism and the people’s democratic dictatorship … Continue reading →

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