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2024 Japan-China: “I don’t feel any affinity” increased to 73.1% in a survey of Japanese people’s attitudes toward China

Posted on 12/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund Japan-China relations public opinion survey reported on Science Portal China of the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Using ChatGPT4o Japanese-English machine translation. I was going to use the DeepL machine translation but realized there was a … Continue reading →

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1957: Hundred Flowers Criticisms of Party and State, Part II — Democratic Dictatorship, Centralism, Law…

Posted on 10/07/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated here are a second collection of excerpts from China’s 1957 Hundred Flowers speaking frankly campaign transcripts and summaries of statements contained in the 888-page Renmin University September 1958 book Selected Rightist Speeches from Institutions of Higher Education published by the … Continue reading →

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2009: What Do Africans Think of the Chinese? 非洲人眼里的中国人

Posted on 06/21/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

What Do Africans Think of the Chinese?  非洲人眼里的中国人   by the Chinese journalist LIU Zhirong 刘植荣 A few years ago I found this 2009 article posted and reposted on many Chinese websites including http://bbs.tiexue.net/post2_3586214_1.html (it is no longer there) Still interesting … Continue reading →

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2004/2019/2022: PRC Lawyer: China Law Will Progress, Despite Everything

Posted on 03/06/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Taking off from a discussion of the red hot arguments and attacks erupting online in China about the Russia – Ukraine war, Chinese lawyer and former judge Lu Liangbiao 吕良彪 and Hu Ping in a 2019 春秋吕释 WeChat blog entry … Continue reading →

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2022 Yan Xuetong: Young Chinese College Students Often Condescending Towards Foreign Countries

Posted on 01/12/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Arrogance is a common human failing no matter which country you are in. This, however, in not just one of those what is the younger generation coming to rants. During my ten years living in China as a US diplomat … Continue reading →

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2021: PRC Researcher on President Biden’s China Experts 中国通

Posted on 05/29/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Just out on the aisixiang website in China is Chinese USA analyst Xie Hui presenting her views on President Biden’s China Experts [zhongguo tong 中国通] and on their policy orientation based on their publications over the past several months, recent … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #27: The 31st Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 22, 2020

Posted on 02/24/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 22, 2020 31st Day of the Wuhan City Closure Today I got an express package delivery – something I had ordered on January 22 before the city closed – that took a whole month to be delivered. That’s a … Continue reading →

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2009: PRC Magazine Survey Lists Ten Top Chinese Concerns for the Coming Decade

Posted on 09/09/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

  A People’s Forum magazine survey of academics, cadres and people online: what are the most serious problems China will face over the next decade? The survey allowed multiple responses to questions.　I added a few comments in brackets. 调查显示腐败问题突破民众承受底线 The … Continue reading →

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2010: The Art of Guiding Public Opinion — How Leading Cadres Handle the Media 舆论引导艺术 — 领导干部如何面对媒体

Posted on 08/29/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Art of Guiding Public Opinion — How Leading Cadres Handle the Media 《舆论引导艺术 — 领导干部如何面对媒体》 by Ren Xianliang 任贤良 vice director of the Shaanxi Province Party Committee Propaganda Department and Vice Chairman of the China Journalists’ Association (420 pages, published … Continue reading →

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