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Beijing professor denies having called Hong Kong’ers “Dogs” on TV
It started with a subway brawl in Hong Kong. Despite signs and announcements prohibiting the consumption of food on the subway, a Chinese mainlander was enjoying a bowl of instant noodles in a subway car. One Hong Kong resident lost … Continue reading
Gajo Petrovic Prophesies Wukan
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. In 1979, the philosophy of Yugoslavian Marxist humanist Gajo Petrovic … Continue reading
Posted in modernization, politics, scholarship
Tagged democracy, philosophy, Protest
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The Crucial Question about China’s Rise to Power
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 the carrying out of each consitution’s human rights principals. 2. … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese characteristics, politics, scholarship, 中国特色
Tagged democracy, freedom, traditional China
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7.23 Wenzhou Train Crash: A Generation-Defining Event
Also read this post on Asia Society Northern California’s blog. The Western media wake trailing the Wenzhou train crash (7.23.11) has ranged from speculative and well-founded to insensitive and under-evidenced and in most scenarios tinged with latent political musings. Perhaps more … Continue reading
Posted in China, modernization, politics
Tagged Chinese media, corruption, politics, Wenzhou train crash
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What is to be done [about China]?
Having survived death by a thousand cuts (finals week), a whirlwind week as a funemployed laowai in Andingmen, and 24 hours of travel, I finally am now tucked back into the cozy New England town called home. The overnight transformation … Continue reading
