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1957: Mao on the Six Principles for Permissible Speech and Actions — A Variation on the Famous ‘Handling Internal Contradictions’ Speech?

Posted on 10/28/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As I translate 888-page Renmin University (People’s University) September 1958 book I have been running down the many references that come up in the book — here a reference to Mao’s Six Principles for permissible speech. I found this from Mao … Continue reading →

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Update: Censoring Aisixiang ‘Enjoying Intellectual Discussion’ Website — Two Articles

Posted on 11/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Enjoying Intellectual Discussion [Aisixiang] website has many intriguing articles.  A good place to read about what Chinese writers and scholars are talking about.  Several years ago, I mentioned two articles I had read there.   Revisiting this page four years … Continue reading →

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2019: Party Discipline Advice: Take History as a Mirror

Posted on 10/13/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese Communist Party’s ideological journal Seeking Truth Qiushi has picked up an article from the dual-hatted Party/State disciplinary organ’s official journal China Discipline and Supervision News. This dual hatted organ disciplinary organ goes by the names of the Chinese … Continue reading →

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2021: Update**2: Congressional Research Service Reports on China and US – China Relations — Access to CRS Reports is Improving

Posted on 05/07/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

(May 2021) Direct access to many Congressional Research Service reports relating to China and many other subjects are available direct from the CRS website. Many Congressional Research Service reports are archived on the website of the Federation of American Scientists … Continue reading →

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2020: Zhang Baijia: Reflections on China’s Research on Frontiers and Relations with Neighboring States

Posted on 04/01/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Zhang Baijia 章百家 spoke at the first session and gave opening remarks of the academic workshop on “China’s Frontier and Asian Studies” hosted by the Department of History of Tsinghua University on October 11, 2020. Zhang Baijia is the … Continue reading →

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PRC Diplomatic History Scholar Shen Zhihua

Posted on 09/16/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I’ve been lucky to hear Professor Shen Zhihua at the Wilson Center in DC twice over the past few years.  He came both times with a group of five or so Chinese scholars who gave presentations on PRC history and … Continue reading →

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A Most Chinese Public Disappearance on Twitter: @airmovingdevice

Posted on 03/07/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Big Data-style analysis of Chinese media treatment of high officials, references to 1989 political massacres and other sensitive matters apparently got the anonymous person with the Twitter name @airmovingdevice silenced. @airmovingdevice deleted his/her cyber analytic insights into Chinese society and … Continue reading →

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Chinese Media Censorship and Fighting Corruption

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

What gets censored in Chinese online media? The University of Toronto Citizen Lab  and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University have been among the leaders in research into online censorship in China.  In 2013 some … Continue reading →

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Atom Bomb Scientist Deng Jiaxian, China’s Oppenheimer

Posted on 08/05/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A bust of nuclear bomb scientist and important weapons program leader, and Purdue engineering PhD Deng Jiaxian 邓稼先 in Mianyang’s People’s Park. Deng Jiaxian received his PhD in Physics at Purdue University in 1950. Only shortly before his death was his … Continue reading →

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2013: US Congressional Research Service Looks at China 美国国会代表怎么看中国的政治制度？ 看国会研究服务部为了他们写的报告

Posted on 05/25/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

美国国会代表怎么理解中国的政治制度？ 美国国会图书馆国会研究服务部为2009年低应了国会代表的邀请写了一个报告 — “Understanding China’s Political System”. 你可以一边学英语，一边理解美国国会代表受到的关于中国的信息。 报告在 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41007.pdf 你可以一边学英语一边多了解部分美国中国问题研究院人对中国政治制度的看法。 英文摘要： Opaque and shrouded in secrecy, China’s political system and decision-making processes are mysteries to many Westerners. At one level, China is a one-party state that has been ruled by … Continue reading →

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