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2021: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative

Posted on 12/14/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Recently, a rapidly censored social media post criticizing a supposed Chinese Communist Party plan to require all Party members to have more than two children. The anonymous poster has a geat pen name — 未名湖的闲着 The Idler of the Unnamed Lake (perhaps … Continue reading →

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2021: Liang Jianzhang: Too Many Force-Fed Baby Dragons — Abolish the National College Entrance Exam, Enable More Students to Attend University

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

The passive rebellion of China’s “lie flat” youth against declining socioeconomic mobility growing gaps in opportunity between youth in rural and urban areas and within urban areas is now a much-discussed topic in China. In the translation below, a Chinese … Continue reading →

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Late 1990s Reading Notes: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang

Posted on 12/08/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

While working in the US Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section in the late 1990s, I collected some books on Xinjiang. I went on a ten-day trip there in 1997 planning to do a report on desertification and implementation … Continue reading →

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1990s: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang — Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Posted on 08/09/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here are some reading notes I made while working in the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section (1996 – 2001). These I have copied from the old U.S. Embassy Beijing website preserved on the Internet Archive. Here I … Continue reading →

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2005: PRC Birth Enforcement Planning Regulations Dial Back Overly Aggressive Enforcement

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

The word 计划生育 jihua shengyu “planned fertility” is usually translated as ‘family planning’ in English.  The Chinese practice makes personal reproduction as another element to control in the planned economy so calling it birth planning could be more appropriate.   … Continue reading →

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