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1919 Bing Xin: Female Students in Our Era of Destruction and Construction

Posted on 06/21/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated below the second article of Volume One of Bing Xin’s Collected Works 冰心全集 See also: 1919 Female Students in Our Era of Destruction and Construction The term “female student” (女学生) is a new one that has emerged in the … Continue reading →

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1919: Bing Xin on Attending Trial of Peking U Students

Posted on 06/20/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Bing Xin’s 1919 report followed by the Chinese Communist Party News Network website’s 2018 backgrounder on the trial. I added some links and comments. See also: 1930: A Ying on Writer Bing Xin 冰心/Xie Wanying Reflections on Attending the Trial on … Continue reading →

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Esperanto in Early 20th Century China

Posted on 06/23/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading today Tianyu M. Fang’s article “Esperanto, China’s Surprisingly Prominent Linguistic Subculture is Slowly Dying Out: The history of Esperanto in China goes back over 100 years” on RADII brought back some memories of seeing Esperanto [called World Language shijieyu … Continue reading →

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2019: Party Worries Reflected in Beatings of Marxist Students

Posted on 05/01/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Just saw this posted today. A recounting of Party/Peking University staff/police abuse of students in the Peking University Marxist Society that was closed down late last year. A November 2018 Hong Kong Free Press report “Too Marxist for China? Radical … Continue reading →

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