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2014 Ran Yunfei: “Zhuangzi As I See Him” 冉雲飛著《莊子我説》Preface

Posted on 12/10/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I got to know Sichuan writer Ran Yunfei when I worked at U.S. Consulate General Chengdu 2007 – 2012. Ran Yunfei is a fine writer, scholar, and bon vivant.  Lately, studying the Zhuangzi in Chinese with some retired friends we have … Continue reading →

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1993 – 2016: Party Ideologue Wang Huning on Marxist Political Science Chapter One

Posted on 08/20/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Now Politburo member and longtime Party ideologue and leader speechwriter, the Shanghai political science professor Wang Huning wrote the first chapter of 《政治的逻辑 马克思主义政治学原理》 【The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science】, a book of which he was the … Continue reading →

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2025 Revision: Chinese Language Study and Translation Tools

Posted on 06/17/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Intermediate and advanced professional learners of Chinese at some point may want to look for Chinese-language materials in their areas of interest. Large Language Model AIs have greatly improved the quality of machine translation recently. An example is the ChatGPT4o … Continue reading →

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Studying Abroad and Returned Students: It’s Complicated

Posted on 06/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Love-hate relationships sometimes.  In 1973 when I was studying in France, a Jordanian student told me  “People from my country who study in the Soviet Union become pro-American, while those who study in the USA become pro-Soviet!” Perhaps not true … Continue reading →

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1997: Qian Ning on “Studying in America” 留學美國

Posted on 10/11/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I wrote this brief summary translation about Qian Ning’s Studying in America 留學美國. Qian’s book was later translated into English when I was working in the Environment, Science and Technology Section of U.S. Embassy Beijing. It is interesting as one … Continue reading →

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2021 PRC Education Reform: Does Xi Thought Now Require Less Xi Thought in Class?

Posted on 09/16/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese teachers local eduational authorities and classroom teachers are working out how to implement the Communist Party and central government policy of reducing excessive burden on students (see for example Private Out, State Further “In” as Chinese Education Focuses on … Continue reading →

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2021: “History and Experience of the Chinese Communist Party’s Engagement with the United States”: A Lecture by Professor Zhang Baijia

Posted on 04/24/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Zhang Baijia, diplomatic historian and deputy director of the Chinese Communist Party’s institute for the study of Party history, led off a series of lectures on China and the world aimed at the future Chinese diplomats coming out of … Continue reading →

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2020: Zhang Baijia: Reflections on China’s Research on Frontiers and Relations with Neighboring States

Posted on 04/01/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Zhang Baijia 章百家 spoke at the first session and gave opening remarks of the academic workshop on “China’s Frontier and Asian Studies” hosted by the Department of History of Tsinghua University on October 11, 2020. Zhang Baijia is the … Continue reading →

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From Wuhan: Wuhan Youth on Wuhan’s Predicament Calling out to Chinese Around the World

Posted on 01/26/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Remarkable video from a young man in Wuhan on Youtube. In Chinese with English subtitles. I took the transcript off YouTube and made it more readable. Hello everyone, I hope everyone who is watching this can cherish this video.Because it … Continue reading →

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Leung Man-tao’s Thousand and One Nights Video Series on YouTube

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

I recently came across a fun Chinese-language literature program on YouTube. This is a good video series for advanced students of Chinese could watch there. Not overly fast, very standard Mandarin as you might expect from a presenter who has … Continue reading →

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