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2008: Iron Fist on Mao’s Evaluations of Stalin

A scholar with the wonderfully Stalinist (or Leninist?) pen name of Iron Fist in 2008 put together a well-sourced collection of Mao’s writings, speeches and listeners personal notes on Mao’s thoughts on Stalin. The collection was posted on the website … Continue reading

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2025 Revision: Chinese Language Study and Translation Tools

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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2021: Chinese SF/Ham Radio Web Novel: We Live in Nanjing

I follow the Shenyang Amateur Radio Club on Weibo social media. They passed along a glowing review of new online novel We Live in Nanjing in which a ham radio operator plays a central role. This novel, by Tianrui Shuofu, … Continue reading

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NGOs: Musings on the China Development Brief

The English language side of the China Development Brief website provides a guide to NGOs in China, an overview of rules for NGOs — no politics, no religion, no profit making activities. Prominent on the top page is a link to … Continue reading

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Update: Censoring Aisixiang ‘Enjoying Intellectual Discussion’ Website — Two Articles

The Enjoying Intellectual Discussion [Aisixiang] website has many intriguing articles.  A good place to read about what Chinese writers and scholars are talking about.  Several years ago, I mentioned two articles I had read there.   Revisiting this page four years … Continue reading

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The Tradition, Dilemma and Future of the Principle of “Maintaining the Distinction Between the Domestic and the Foreign”

The China Media Project on July 16, 2021 reported on a conference on China’s external public communications/public diplomacy/propaganda efforts. As Gerbert pointed on in a tweet, there is an intriguing twist here in the use of the old Communist Party … Continue reading

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2019: China Anti-Cult Association — Analyzing a Rising Flying Saucer Cult

“As the supreme arbiter of morality and values — as well as the ultimate “manager of society”, the Party demands that all religions take on the colorations that it dictates”. Continue reading

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