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2014: (11) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Eleven: A Constitution Shifting at Every Turn

Posted on 11/24/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (10) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Ten: Character is Destiny The … Continue reading →

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2025: Chinese and Russian Scholars on Personality Cults

Posted on 08/30/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The question of personality cult often comes up in discussion of historic leaders of Russia’s Stalin, China’s Mao Zedong and Germany’s Adolf Hitler. What explains their success? Psychologists look to psychology, sociologists to sociology, political scientists to the dynamics of … Continue reading →

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1985: Anti-Party Novel Liu Zhidan and How Secretary Xi’s Dad Got Into Trouble About It

Posted on 04/27/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Factional struggles including those between ‘left’ and ‘right’ and between those who lived in the base areas and those who lived underground before 1949 in KMT-controlled areas have characterized the Chinese Communist Party and of the PRC since 1949. Xi … Continue reading →

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2025: PRC Youth Sentiment, Seeking Emotional Value of Products and Internal Emigration à la Russe?

Posted on 03/21/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

How to assess the morale and feelings of people in China these days? That is too complicated a question: especially in such a decentralized country that has provinces of differing cultures and culinary preferences that is a tough question. One … Continue reading →

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Before the Flying Tigers — Soviet ‘Flying Bears’ Flying Against Japan

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

Volunteer Soviet pilots flying against Japanese invaders of China supported the Republic of China war effort from 1937 until the signing of the Soviet Union-Japan Non-Aggression Pact of April 1941. Wikipedia has an article about them at Soviet Volunteer Group … Continue reading →

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China-Russia: Histories of ‘Spelling’ (pinyin) of Chinese in Russia and China

Posted on 02/11/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After reading some excellent contributions on Quora about the current (there are quite a few others with their own pluses and minuses) PRC official method of ‘spelling sounds’ pinyin Mandarin pronunciation, I found the article translated below about the development … Continue reading →

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2010: From a Russian Perspective: History of PRC intelligence

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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1974：U.S. Balloons Invaded PRC Airspace, Zhou Enlai Furious Orders Destroy It At All Costs

Posted on 02/06/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Three notes relating to U.S. Spy Balloons Overflying Soviet and Chinese Territory During the 1970s. The U.S. also overflew the Soviet Union during the 1950s with both balloons and aircraft. Some of the balloons and aircraft were shot down. The … Continue reading →

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