Tag Archives: work unit

2022: PRC Fertility: Cash Short and Child Poor?

Posted on 01/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See also related translations here: PRC Analysts: Population Aging, Declining Fertility Make PRC Family/Fertility Policy Change Imperative Private Out, State Further “In” as Chinese Education Focuses on the Family 2005: PRC Birth Enforcement Planning Regulations Dial Back Overly Aggressive Enforcement Liang Jianzhang: Too … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy 经济, Law 法律, Society 社会 | Tagged child care, child policy, childbearing, China, Chinese, demography, economy, education, expenses, 计生, 计划生育, family planning, fertility, government, incentives, opportunity cost, policy, PRC, Ren Zeping, work unit, 中国, 任泽平 | 3 Comments

Basic Cell of First-half PRC Economic and Political Organization: The Work Unit

Posted on 03/05/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The unit or work unit (gongzuo danwei 工作单位） was a key feature of the first half of the PRC’s history although it faded away after the Second Founding of the PRC led by Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping and others. One … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy 经济, History 历史, Politics 政治 | Tagged 1949, China, Communist Party, Confucius, control, cultural zone, economy, historical, history, Mao, Mao Zedong, New China, nihilism, Northeast, politics, reform, reform and opening up, renaissance, unit system, work unit, Xi Jinping, 共产党, 制度, 单位, 改革开放, 毛泽东, 中国 | Leave a comment

From Yang Jisheng’s Book: China’s Workers on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution

Posted on 03/03/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

These days I have been reading Yang Jisheng’s 【楊繼繩】 massive book 天地翻覆——中國文化大革命史 (上篇) [The World Turned Upside Down — the History of China’s Cultural Revolution]. I just came across a nice capsule description of the China’s post-1949 unit system for … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural Revolution, Economy 经济, History 历史, Politics 政治 | Tagged China, Chinese, class, Communist Party, control, Cultural Revolution, high school, housing, ideology, land, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, murder, peasants, people's commune, PRC, Red Guards, revolution, students, summary, The World Turned Upside Down, totalitarian, translation, University, work unit, worker, workers, working class, working conditions, 单位, 工作单位, 人民公社 | 5 Comments

2003: A Chinese Expert on PRC National Defense Industrial Sector Reform

Posted on 12/07/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is another book I ordered online from a Chinese bookstore, did a summary, sharing it with interested colleagues while working at State/INR. Open source intelligence can be both easy to collect (albeit in a language difficult for sino-illiterates) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy 经济, Military 军事, National Security 安全 | Tagged China, civilian, civilian product, Communist Party, competition, Congress, corporate law, CPM, critical path method, 科技, defense contractor, defense sector, dual use, economy, export, 装备, 解放军, foreign, GAD, General Armaments Department, Gulf War, Hua Luogeng, incentives, industrial, informatize, international market, law, leapfrog, management, market, Martin Marietta, mechanize, military, military representative, military-industrial, network planning method, PERT, PLA, planned economy, PRC, prioritizing, Program Evaluation and Review Technique, project, R&D, research facility, resource, sector, systems engineering, systems integration, US military, work unit, WTO, 品质管理, 国防, 国防工业, 孙广运, 工业, 中国 | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: work unit

2022: PRC Fertility: Cash Short and Child Poor?

Basic Cell of First-half PRC Economic and Political Organization: The Work Unit

From Yang Jisheng’s Book: China’s Workers on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution

2003: A Chinese Expert on PRC National Defense Industrial Sector Reform

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