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2025: Household Registration/Hukou System of Taiwan and Mainland Compared 台灣/中國大陸戶口制度歷史演變

Posted on 05/28/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Household registration systems in Taiwan and mainland China serve as foundational tools for governance, but they differ significantly in structure, purpose, and societal impact. Below I queried Chat GPT in Chinese to get an overview of and sources on the … Continue reading →

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Most Chinese Dynasties are Short-lived, Including the Post 1949 Ones

Posted on 01/09/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

One of the many differences between China and Japan is that while Japan has had essentially the same imperial house forever (allowing for a few discontinuities and mythological roots before the third century or so) while in China any boy … Continue reading →

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2024: Suicide in China 中国自杀现象 (via Chinese language 维基百科）

Posted on 06/09/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

During the 1990s, the suicide rate among rural women was the highest in the PRC. I recall vividly a meeting with experts from the section of the PRC Ministry of Agriculture (around 1998 while working in the US Embassy Beijing … Continue reading →

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2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series

Posted on 06/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is my translation of volume II of Yang Hengjun’s Chinese spy trilogy. Many retired spies went on to write spy novels. Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré/David Cornwall, Stella Rimington, Charles McCarry, Frederick Forsyth, Jason Matthews fueled their … Continue reading →

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2021: Economist Hai Wen on Rural Revitalization (It’s About People not Land)

Posted on 12/24/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The migration of China’s vast underemployed rural workforce to the countryside over the past several decades enabled the construction of China’s urban infrastructure and manning its factories. The civil disabilities that migrant workers face — their children are often denied … Continue reading →

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2022: Zhao Shukai Calls for Politics-Free Historical Research

Posted on 09/29/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Rural China where most of China’s people still live and  rural governance across the long histories of the many states that have occupied the Central Plains since very early ‘barbarian peoples’ coalesced into. assimilated others into and inherited what is … Continue reading →

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2023: Urban Law Enforcement Bureau/Chengguan

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

The much-maligned (see for example the 2013 The Atlantic report Meet the ‘Chengguan’: China’s Violent, Hated Local Cops Chinese urban enforcement force chengguan now have a rural counterpart the nongguan Comprehensive agricultural administrative enforcement . To preceding title I added … Continue reading →

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2023 Wiki/Chinese: Nongguan 农管 – Ag/Rural Enforcement

Posted on 05/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When it comes to Chinese topics, Chinese language Wikipedia articles — many which have no comparable English language counterpart — can be a good source of information or — even better — a jumping off point for further research with … Continue reading →

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2006: Gao Bingzhong: On Dual Naming as Political Art

Posted on 04/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Multiple names for the same person or entity can be a strategy to agree to disagree. Here Professor Gao Bingzhong describes how a rural Henan community managed to continue their traditional religious traditions all the while mollifying (at least temporarily) … Continue reading →

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2022: Focus Development on People, Not the West

Posted on 11/07/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Hu Xuefeng, Director of Wuhan University Chinese Rural Governance Research Center, suggests shifting the policy focus of “Develop the West” to a policy of “Develop the People”. He outlines the shortcomings and waste of the Develop the West policy and … Continue reading →

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