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2025: President Xi Jinping Delivers 2025 New Year Address

Posted on 01/02/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese evening news joint broadcast 联播节目 of December 31 carried Xi Jinping’s 2025 New Year’s address. The Chinese text is on The Daily Joint News Broadcast 每日新闻联播 website. Running the text through ChatGPT4o I got an English translation. Below … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted

Posted on 05/22/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A Chinese language interview with imprisoned Chinese freedom blogger Ruan Xiaohuan’s wife Ms. Bei on the Conversations with Yuan Li Bumingbai podcast gives insights on Ruan’s core beliefs and influences, including the ethos surrounding the open software and freedom of … Continue reading →

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2021：Secretary Xi — China’s Determination to Achieve Still Greater Openness will not Change

Posted on 11/06/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[Chinese Communist Party ideological journal] Seeking Truth commentator: China’s Determination to Achieve Still Greater Openness will not Change Source：Seeking Truth Network 求是网 Author：Seeking Truth Net Commentator 2021-11-06 10:42:10 http://www.qstheory.cn/wp/2021-11/06/c_1128037461.htm 　　On the evening of November 4, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #10: The Fourteenth Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 5, 2020

Posted on 02/06/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 5 ： Fourteenth Day of Wuhan City Closure Today is the 14th of the Wuhan City closure.  I have been writing this diary for two weeks now. I first took pen in hand to help ease my own anxiety … Continue reading →

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Disappeared Chinese Tweeter Reappears in His Literary Way

Posted on 04/26/2019 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In March I blogged about the Twitter disappearance of Air-Moving Device recounted in my earlier blog posting that began: A Most Chinese Public Disappearance on Twitter: @airmovingdevice — his engrossing Big Data-style analysis of Chinese media treatment of high officials, references to … Continue reading →

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Xu Zhangrun: “Whoever Heard of a Teacher Who Doesn’t Speak”

Posted on 11/10/2018 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See Professor Geremie Barmé’s translation of Xu Zhangrun’s article on the China Heritage website at http://chinaheritage.net/journal/and-teachers-then-they-just-do-their-thing/   “Whoever Heard of a Teacher Who Doesn’t Speak?” Xu Zhangrun: Having dedicated myself to a teaching career, I have to repeat what Hu … Continue reading →

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2018: My Student Reported on Me!

Posted on 11/05/2018 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

我被学生举报了！ 原创： 凡人钒语 凡人钒语 [from qq public account  https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jv2haHKMbgxL81gRZhCtrQ  ]   A student reported me on Monday morning! We were discussing in class whether rich people or poor people made greater contributions to society.  One girl got very angry, and spoke up, … Continue reading →

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2006：Chinese Public Intellectuals List from Nanfang Renwu Zhoukan

Posted on 09/02/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Online PRC Public Intellectuals’ Rogues Gallery A nice entry point into the social, political, and economic debates of modern China is the University of Heidelberg Digital Archive of Chinese Studies Fifty Public Intellectuals database offers a nice entry point to the … Continue reading →

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2009: Defense Plea of Sichuan Dissident Tan Zuoren 谭作人涉嫌煽动颠覆国家政权案 — 夏霖、浦志强两位律师的一审辩护词

Posted on 07/08/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After the August 2009 trial of Tan Zuoren there circulated on the Internet in China, and being constantly deleted on Chinese websites, the defense plea in his case.  Tan’s one day trial was held on August 12 in Chengdu. The defense … Continue reading →

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