Tag Archives: love

2025: The Party Rescues China’s Bachelors: The Bride Price Crackdown

Posted on 10/07/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Bride prices in China have climbed rapidly over the past three decades. The sharp rise of incomes in better-off social layers (shehui jieceng 社会阶层 — they don’t like to say classes China which were abolished in the PRC under Chinese … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLV: What Became of My College Sweetheart Ma Kaixian? A Brutally Interrupted Love Story

Posted on 07/06/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find table of contents chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter Eleven: Searching for Old Friends In 1980, after temporarily settling into my teaching … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXXIV: Love and Marriage

Posted on 06/26/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  6. My First Love and Marriage  After settling the issue of my employment by starting work … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXI: The Privileged

Posted on 04/03/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

You can read the first thirty pages of my translation of Kong Lingping’s Blood Chronicle and links to previously posted installments of Kong’s memoir Blood Chronicles 血纪 Previous installment: Rightist Memoir XX: Lin Biao’s Flight and Aftermath from Kong Lingping’s “Bloody Chronicles” 8.3 Privileged … Continue reading →

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2009: Censored — Tang Xiyang’s A Green World Tour

Posted on 02/05/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

It can be so very hard to imagine what it could have been like to live in a totalitarian state. While I worked in the S&T section at U.S. Embassy Beijing in China, I knew the Chinese environmentalist Tang Xiyang.   … Continue reading →

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