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2022: Rural Shanghai: Drones Help Block Virus, Party Committee Ensures Seedling Deliveries

Posted on 05/12/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Aerial + ground” full coverage, Shanghai suburban township with drones weave a rural epidemic prevention and control network 空中+地面”全覆盖，沪郊小镇用无人机织密乡村疫情防控网 May 12, 2022 “Please wear masks, stay two meters apart for safety!” “Please don’t move around so much. Do not go … Continue reading →

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Anhui’s Water Spirit Hairy Monster Scare of 1953-4

Posted on 02/16/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The February 2016 issue of the Chinese journal Communist Party Historical Research and Education  《党史研究与教学》 tells the story, based on research in local government archives,  of a scary rumor from the early days of the PRC.  Widespread rumors of hairy monsters … Continue reading →

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2013: Full Text — Qin Hui on Holding Government Accountable and the Road to Constitutionalism — Now Banned Tianze Economic Thinktank 464th Biweekly Seminar

Posted on 04/19/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I just found the full text of Qin Hui’s presentation on the Independent Chinese PEN Center website. My translation of the full text I have now posted below above the excerpt I found a few days ago on the PRC … Continue reading →

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Reading Ye Fu’s “Requiem for a Landlord”

Posted on 12/16/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After reading Ye Fu’s essay Requiem for a Landlord , he wrote the story of his own grandfather, a murdered scapegoat of Mao’s 1951 land reforms that killed millions of landowners, big and small as well as other troublesome people … Continue reading →

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2005: West China’s Pig to Human Streptococcus Epidemic: Fact & Fiction

Posted on 01/20/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Introduction Delays in communicating emergency information to the public has been a persistent problem in China.  It was addressed by national legislation to encourage openness and some progress has been made especially on human-human epidemics. The lesson had to be … Continue reading →

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Henan 1995: Wang Shuping Warns of Coming Blood Plasma Collection Station Spread HIV Epidemic Among Blood Sellers

Posted on 08/11/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Henan physician Dr. Wang Shuping, the author of the December 1995 report translated below, reviewed this translation and offered several explanatory notes which are included in brackets below. Wang Shuping is now a research worker at the University of Utah … Continue reading →

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1993 Zhoukou, Henan: The Eruption and Sudden Surge of Paid Blood Donations

Posted on 08/07/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The HIV/AIDS epidemic that arose in Henan Province, China and other from dangerous blood banking practices and spread HIV/AIDS to at least many tens of thousands of people began with for profit blood sales by tens of thousand of poor … Continue reading →

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2008: Tibet’s Rural Economy and Caterpillar Fungus

Posted on 09/10/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Many rural Tibetans throughout Tibetan areas of China make substantial earnings harvesting caterpillar fungus. This article below  “Reiyang Trade Network New Forum: If you need to buy caterpillar fungus, post in this forum” found on a traders’  website, gives an … Continue reading →

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2010: PRC Urbanization: Counterfeit and Forced Urbanization

Posted on 09/10/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Counterfeit urbanization  伪城市化 and forced urbanization 强制性城市化 are two terms Chinese scholars sometimes use when they discuss the problems of China’s rapid (nearly one percent annually) urbanization. Counterfeit urbanization  伪城市化 discussed in Tang Jialing’s article Urbanization or “Counterfeit Urbanization”城市化还是“伪城市化” by唐家岭：  —  to summarize, about 200 million … Continue reading →

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2010: PRC Anthropologist Wu Fei on Suicide and Chinese Search for the Good Life

Posted on 09/06/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Cultural Anthropologist Wu Fei on Suicide — Chinese Need to Find a Way to Live the Good Life, Chinese Style 吴飞：自杀与中国式美好生活 2010年06月25日  南方人物周刊 [Wu Fei was one of the co-authors of the 2011 book Deep China: The Moral Life of the … Continue reading →

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