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2014: (23) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 23 “Dreams Come True”

Posted on 12/10/2025 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: (22) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 22 “An Earth-Shattering Revelation” … Continue reading →

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2014: (22) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 22 “An Earth-Shattering Revelation”

Posted on 12/09/2025 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: (21) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 21 “Purgatory”  The next … Continue reading →

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2014: (7) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Seven: As Different as Night and Day — Absolute Power vs Constitutional Government

Posted on 11/10/2025 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: (6) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Six: He Long’s Very … Continue reading →

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2017: Chinese Professor Li Ling on George Orwell’s Anti-Soviet Novels “Animal Farm” and “1984”

Posted on 09/17/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When I lived in China I would come across 1984 in Chinese bookstores and wonder why the Party didn’t take it personally (or partily?). The answer is that Orwell’s books were taken as anti-Soviet rather than as anti-communist. His books … Continue reading →

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PRC Top Procuratorate: Fighting Profit-Driven Law Enforcement and Judicial Practices

Posted on 02/14/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) over the past year has been cracking down on local law enforcement and judicial practices aimed at harvesting money for local governments and individuals. Cash-starved local governments have increasingly been reaching out for potential … Continue reading →

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20th C: George Orwell and Lu Xun

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

Totalitarianism unfortunately is always topical. England’s George Orwell and China’s Lu Xun were both powerful critics of oppressive regimes worth reading today. They approached totalitarianism from different historical and cultural perspectives. Orwell, writing from the mid-20th century, focused on the … Continue reading →

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1957：Hundred Flowers Critiques of the Party by Rightists Part V — Party Committee System and Factionalism

Posted on 10/21/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In Part V of this book of criticisms draw from the 1957 Hundred Flowers period when the Communist Party demanded that people speak out with criticisms of the Party so that it could improve its work, many people went along, … Continue reading →

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2023 NPC Lectures: #1 PRC Constitutional System and Practice

Posted on 12/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is a translation of the first lecture in a series of seven lectures given to the 170 members of the PRC National People’s Congress Standing Committee. The Standing Committee is the standing legislative body of China; the full 3000-member … Continue reading →

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2023: The Paranoid Style in Chinese Politics

Posted on 10/16/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After re-reading Richard Hofstadter’s November 1964 Harper’s Magazine article “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (available online) . I suspect the timing of the article had something to do with AuH2O aka K7UGA but who am I to say? I  wondered … Continue reading →

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2022: Party Pragmatism, Party Totalitarianism and Rocks in the River

Posted on 12/15/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese Communist Party says reasonable things about learning from practice and then adjusting theory on the basis of experience in iterations of going between theory and practice. Somehow though, it seems that democratic centralism and the people’s democratic dictatorship … Continue reading →

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