See the debate: 海归女 PK名主持 Twenty-four-year-old Liu Lili recently appeared on a Chinese job-hunting TV show. She was halfway through saying, “I was in New Zealand for three years. After those…
There have been a handful of times in my life in which immediate death seemed all but confirmed. The worst instance was my last plane flight home – the nine-hour…
In a fit of bitterness over my botched Chinese-classics education, being that my teacher of Confucianism and Modern Society chose to play movies all semester rather than teach, I decided…
This is a response to Jonathan Levine’s article on working in China, “Go East, Young Man”, published on January 8. After writing this response, I found that someone had written…
1. Marx identifies private property as the basis of peoples’ alienation from human nature. 2. China adopts Marxism as its ruling ideology. 3. China adopts partial capitalism under Deng. 4.…
For Americans: You have to pick between two scenarios. 1. America is no longer a world power, but the other countries are mostly democratic with stable legal systems that ensure…
This news is a bit outdated now, but it has been a crazy month. And it started with a five-day poetry conference in Kowloon. It was my first time to…
Assuming the reader of this blog minimally follows China news, it would be redundant of me to summarize the Yueyue incident of late October. So I’ll get right to the part where a…
So get this. Warriors of Qiugang documented the Chinese NGO Green Anhui and their journey to save the people of Qiugang from evil factories. In the end they win, people…
Here is translation number two, sourced from a post on Baidu by Teacher Jia Xianhua. I will here mention that my translation is geared more for non-Chinese-speaking English/American readers. So…
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