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2014: (18) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 18 “A Thousand Li Apart, Linked by Fate”

Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (17) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 17 “In the … Continue reading

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2015: The Puzzle of Rural Land Rights in PRC

Land and land rights in China have always been a mind-bending topic for me. I can’t claim to be Red or Expert (又红又专), but here below are some of my mind-droppings as I try to understand this a bit better. … Continue reading

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2013: Full Text — Qin Hui on Holding Government Accountable and the Road to Constitutionalism — Now Banned Tianze Economic Thinktank 464th Biweekly Seminar

I just found the full text of Qin Hui’s presentation on the Independent Chinese PEN Center website. My translation of the full text I have now posted below above the excerpt I found a few days ago on the PRC … Continue reading

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Excerpt from Ye Fu’s “Requiem for a Landlord” — A Son Parades His Landlord Father Through the Streets

Numbers, even vast numbers just are numbers. Stories make them real.  Like the numbingly incomprehensive numbers of people killed in the Holocaust and then specifics about individual people that we can see in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and … Continue reading

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Reading Ye Fu’s “Requiem for a Landlord”

After reading Ye Fu’s essay Requiem for a Landlord , he wrote the story of his own grandfather, a murdered scapegoat of Mao’s 1951 land reforms that killed millions of landowners, big and small as well as other troublesome people … Continue reading

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2009: PRC Newsmagazine Lauds KMT Agricultural Reforms on Taiwan

  The February 9, 2009 issue of China Newsweekly Zhongguo Xinwen Zhou  中国新闻周 ran an admiring article about the KMT’s successful land reform in Taiwan “Land to the Tillers” Taiwan Style Now the Farmers are Some of the Most Prosperous … Continue reading

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2010: Feng Xingyuan: The Logic of Integrating Management of Urban and Rural Areas

  冯兴元:城乡统筹的逻辑 本文见《财经》杂志2010年第26期 出版日期2010年12月20日 http://magazine.caijing.com.cn/2010-12-19/110596794.html Feng Xingyuan, vice director of the Unirule Economics Institute (a private economics think tank) in Beijing in the December 19th issue of Caijing discussed the land reform experiment in Chengdu, reform of household registration system in Chengdu, … Continue reading

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