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Rightist Memoir XXXVII: Workers Not Paid, SOE Factory Boss is Fired

Posted on 06/28/2024 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  3. The Agricultural Vehicle Factory in Desperate Shape The agricultural vehicles had sold well for only … Continue reading →

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2023: Beijing Middle Schoolers Protest Stuffed Duck Education

Posted on 12/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Some Beijing middle school students at middle school affiliated with Renmin University (人大附中朝阳分校) wrote a letter of complaint about their dawn-to-dusk high pressure schooling. The PRC Ministry of Education has ordered reductions in classwork and in homework [double reduction policy … Continue reading →

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2021/3 RFA: China’s Tweeter Criminal Served 14 Months Jail Time, Fled PRC, on Snakehead Road to USA

Posted on 05/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I hear more and more about Chinese people emigrating to other countries. It is always a current topic, a bit more these days. Some are discouraged about unemployment, oppression, and their future prospects. Many Chinese who left in the 1980s … Continue reading →

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2022: China Protests and Retribution

Posted on 12/03/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Contents: This poem said to have appeared at Tsinghua University is circulating online in China. Many dots are added around the Chinese characters, apparently to frustrate the character recognition software that online censors used to scrub the Chinese networks clean. … Continue reading →

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2020: Tsinghua U Public Emergency Response Plan

Posted on 11/28/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With the outbreak of student protests across China about Covid lockdowns and other grievances, many Chinese universities must be dusting off their emergency plans. The 2020 Tsinghua University plan translated below is one such plan. Some of these plans address … Continue reading →

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2019: HK Writer Hon Lai-chu — “Today’s Is Not the Only Reality”

Posted on 06/24/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Years of passionate protest for legality and citizen rights in Hong Kong by great numbers of people came to an end with what now seems to be the now seemingly definitive subjugation of the Hong Kong rights movement. Only a … Continue reading →

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2022 Shanghai Lockdown Banned Protest Article: “The Patience of the People of Shanghai Has Reached its Limit”

Posted on 04/18/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[Radio France International’s Chinese language service discussed this and other reports on the fallout from the strict Shanghai covid closures in an April 17th article. Read it with Google Translate. ] Shanghai People’s Patience has Reached Its Limit Original 普通市民 … Continue reading →

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PRC Profs: Our Attitude Towards Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Posted on 02/26/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This petition now circulating among Chinese academics on Chinese social media is being now censored by China’s Internet overseers. The official PRC attitude seems to be uncomfortable, quiet support reflected in its abstention at the United Nations Security Council and … Continue reading →

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2018: PRC Scholar: Mass Protests Unorganized, Not Stability Threat, Totalitarian System Can Handle Them

Posted on 07/06/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This article on mass protests [群体性事件】aka mass incidents in China appeared on Aisixiang, an academic website that carries some intriguing articles at times, and has gotten suppressed now and then over the years.  This article reproduced on Aisixiang originally appeared … 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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