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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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2021: A Ying — 20th C Chinese Writer, Playwright, Bibliophile

Posted on 06/09/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A Ying 阿英 — pen name of Qian Xingcun (钱杏村) or Qian Xingsen (钱杏森) birth named Qian Defu 钱德富 was a 20th century Chinese writer and playwright active from the 1920s onwards, a founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers, … 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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2021 Lie Flat Video Translated: Why Do “I” Lie Flat

Posted on 06/15/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

There are now quite a few videos about the “Lie Flat”[tangping 躺平] movement on Youtube. This video by Zhen Fei entitled “Confessions of a Young Person: Why am I lying flat? Social pressure and class conflict are involved, by the … Continue reading →

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