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From AP, a look at the role grassroots activists are playing in protests those the recent one in Yongzhou, Hunan: Zhang is part of a burgeoning breed of activists. Eager for social justice and linked by the Internet, they are challenging the party’s once tight grip on political life and showing how its information monopoly […]
Read MoreThe Economist reports on the recent riot in Yongzhou, Hunan Province: The protest in Hunan was apparently sparked by a sudden doubling of public-bus fares during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, when many people travel to visit their families. In the resulting clashes, several police vehicles and public buses were torched, at least one […]
Read MoreGaoming Jiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany, wrote an essay on China Dialogue outlining some potential ways for China to help mitigate the global warming crisis: The best way of stopping global warming is to gradually reduce the amount of coal and other non-renewable energy sources that we burn. […]
Read MoreAn editorial from Caijing Magazine editor Hu Shuli: Market-oriented reform is a multi-dimensional process. In fall 2006, the Party advocated ‘advancing reform and innovation in the economic, political, cultural and social systems, and continuing to open the door to the outside world.’ This was a basic summary of the characteristics and tasks of the current […]
Read MoreFrom a lengthy essay by Louis Menand in the New Yorker reviewing Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World: MacMillan’s book is a clearly written, informative, moment-by-moment account of Nixon’s visit, set in the context of twentieth-century Sino-American history. The context makes it plain that both governments had excellent reasons for […]
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