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2024: All Sages Books Beijing Bestsellers and Recent (Old) Books

Posted on 12/26/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is the revised version of this survey. I found that ChatGPT4o on the bestseller list at All Sages Books had difficulty finding the author and generating a useful summary with only the Chinese title to work on. (I imagine … Continue reading →

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2024: VOA — PRC Cyber Police Identifying Followers of Overseas Critic

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading material on the Internet is increasingly being criminalized. Once spreading information like Ruan Xiaohuan (2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted) deemed false, harmful or unhealthy could get you into trouble. Simply reading it not so much. That … Continue reading →

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Criticisms Censored: Netziens Ridicule Anti-Corruption Team Criticism of Young Heterosexual Cadres

Posted on 01/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PHOENIX｜Central Inspection Team Deputy-Minister Grade Cadre Wrote: Young cadres Should Reduce Heterosexual Interactions 12/27/2021 [Found on PRC Weibo social media by China Digital Times CDT Editor’s Note: The following content was originally published by Phoenix on its website and microblog. … Continue reading →

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2021: Chinese SF/Ham Radio Web Novel: We Live in Nanjing

Posted on 12/18/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I follow the Shenyang Amateur Radio Club on Weibo social media. They passed along a glowing review of new online novel We Live in Nanjing in which a ham radio operator plays a central role. This novel, by Tianrui Shuofu, … Continue reading →

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2020: ‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No Says Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang in TV Appearance

Posted on 11/26/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang has been in the news lately because she will represent Taiwan at the December 2021 online Democracy Summit. Tang has a lot to say about so-called AI — he says there is no artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Yu Ying-shih on The ‘Gentleman’ and the Confucian Ideal

Posted on 11/04/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Lately I have been reading the Analects Confucius with two friends who also worked in China and read Chinese. We have been working through the original text assisted by the translation and commentaries of Annping Chin and myriad Chinese language … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #37: The 41st Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 3, 2020

Posted on 03/04/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 3 Forty-first Day of the Wuhan City Closure A secondary disaster resulting from our epidemic home confinement has been making my parents and “sick at the sight of one another”. To them, anything I do or say is wrong. … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #30: The 34th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 25, 2020

Posted on 02/26/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 25 The 34th Day of the Wuhan City Closure A friend outside Wuhan “commended me”, saying that out of all her friends, I was the only one whose family had escaped scot-free. Among the families of three other friends, … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #22: The 26th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 17, 2020

Posted on 02/19/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 17th The 26th Day of the Wuhan City Closure It has started to warm up. The last few days have been very sunny and Spring seems finally about to arrive. I brought all the flowers and plants that had … Continue reading →

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Hunan Epidemic Rumor-Monger Caught, Spread True “Rumor”

Posted on 01/25/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Changsha County, Hunan Public Security Bureau on January 24, 2020 took strong action against Zhou who spread information to a number of Weixin social media groups. Zhou spread a false rumor, disrupting the social order, that four people had … Continue reading →

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