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2006: Overseas Chinese Scholars Critique the Restless Climate at China’s Universities

Posted on 02/16/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The thinking and political/economic systems that Chinese people share has changed with unsettling speed over the past generation or two. This is reflected in changes in China’s science and technology system. — a difficult process involving many dependencies between scientific, … Continue reading →

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2025: What’s New at the Much-Heralded Fourth Plenum and a Guide to Ideological and Political Terms in the Fourth Plenum Communique

Posted on 10/24/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I confess that I haven’t been reading the Party ideological journal Seeking Truth Qiushi 求是 as much when I subscribed to it when worked for the US Mission in China in Beijing and Chengdu. Reading the report on the Party’s … Continue reading →

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2025: Hunan Xiangya Hospital Whistleblower Murder Case Exposed, Ongoing Suppression by Censors — ChatGPT Search Tool Example

Posted on 06/16/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is a presentation, through ChatGPT4o search results in Chinese and English, of the dramatic ongoing 2024 Luo Shiyu 罗帅宇 Hunan Xiangya Second Hospital 中南大学湘雅二医院 whistleblower murder case (the authorities say it was suicide, there is some evidence to the … Continue reading →

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2020: Chinese People’s Understanding of the “Universe” Came 2,000 Years Earlier than Europe

Posted on 01/19/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Volume III of Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilization in China published back in 1959 also discusses Chinese astronomical achievements in some detail but much work has been done on astronomy and other areas of ancient Chinese science and technology. I … Continue reading →

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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Posted on 06/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading →

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2021: Reception of US SciFi in China; A Chinese SF Grandmaster — Ye Yonglie 叶永烈

Posted on 02/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ye Yonglie (1940-2020) Chinese author and occasional film director, sometimes under the pen-names Ye Yang, Ye Ting, Xiao Yong or Jiu Yuan, whose output stretches to fifty volumes of material, of which twenty-four are listed as “works popularizing science”. A … Continue reading →

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2012-22: PRC Scholars Criticize PRC Education (and More)

Posted on 05/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Four articles on the Qian Xusen Question : “None of the students cultivated over the years has had academic achievements comparable to those of the scholars cultivated in the Republic of China. Why do our schools always fail to produce … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Cracks Down on Earthworm Electrocutions

Posted on 04/29/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Letters section of Science magazine on April 21, 2023 published five Chinese scientists reported that China had banned electric capture of earthworms and called for legislation to penalizes electric earthworm capture. Chinese scientists often make policy recommendations to the … Continue reading →

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2018 Foundations of the DARPA Model’s Effectiveness: Lessons for China’s Military S&T II

Posted on 12/01/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This second in a series of what might be called “love letters to DARPA” written by Chinese scholars looking for lessons that can be used to argue for reform in the Chinese science and technology system and in particular the … Continue reading →

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2020: Chinese on US vs. PRC Economy, Science, Education, Outlook for Bilateral Relations

Posted on 07/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Today I came across this set of three articles comparing the US and China in various dimensions and considering the outlook for bilateral relations. These three articles are translated below. I did a quick translation using DeepL and then reviewed … Continue reading →

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