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Rightist Memoir XLIV : Frustrated Engineer in 1990’s at Low Tech Chongqing Motorcycle-Car Enterprises

Posted on 07/04/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find table of contents chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter Ten: Working After Retirement Ma Gang originally was an ordinary cadre (ganbu) at … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXXIX: Entrepreneur-CEO Retires, SOE Automobile Plant Collapses and A Murder 

Posted on 06/29/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  6.  I Fight for a Place to Live In the latter half of 1989, under the … Continue reading →

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Who is a Worker in China These Days?

Posted on 12/03/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The People’s Republic of China was founded as a state of the workers and peasants. Just how many workers are there? The question depends upon the changing definition of worker. As the country has developed, the understanding of just who … Continue reading →

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Chinese Workers on Their Lives: Self-Representation in “New Workers’ Literature”

Posted on 09/08/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A discussion of the new workers’ literature movement in China exemplified by the journal New Workers’ Literature edited by Fan Yusu. Fan’s autobiographical account “I am Fan Yusu” (translated this blog) got wide attention when it was published in 2017. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Wuhan Diary #16: The Twentieth Day of the Wuhan City Closure — February 11, 2020

Posted on 02/12/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

February 11 Twentieth Day of the Wuhan City Closure Life seems to have come to a halt yet time continues to slip by. Today I finally saw our community’s epidemic report on our neighborhood WeChat group. Our community has twenty … Continue reading →

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2017: A Chinese Migrant Worker’s Story: “I Am Fan Yusu” 《我是范雨素》英文翻译

Posted on 06/04/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The autobiographical essay “I Am Fan Suyu” by Chinese migrant peasant author Fan Suyu caused a sensation when it spread across the Internet in China in April 2017. Zhang Pinghui in the May 1 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) … Continue reading →

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