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From the Guardian: A Chinese professor adopted as the intellectual poster boy of the Communist party has come under fire for plagiarising the work of a dissident jailed by the government in the early 1990s. Zhou Ye Zhong, a professor at Wuhan University, is credited with much of the inspiration behind the current leadership’s new […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Guardian: Small, privately owned and worked by moonlighting farmers, the coal mine in central China’s Xin’an County was like hundreds throughout the country. And, like thousands of Chinese miners, those below ground faced the daily danger of injury or death. On Dec. 2, a nearby river overflowed, sending water pouring […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Beijing may be the nation’s capital, but according to a recent survey, it does not even rank in China’s top 10 cities in terms of suitability for living. The city came 15th in the list, as compared to third in 2004, due to its bad traffic, high housing prices and heavy pollution.
Read MoreFrom BBC: A Chinese journalist imprisoned for subversion after writing articles about corruption has been freed a year early, according to a campaign group. Jiang Weiping was reunited with his family after a court in Dalian, north-eastern China, commuted the final year of his six-year sentence. The US-based Dui Hua Foundation said he was freed […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu Business Line: THERE is much international interest in China’s economy, because of its remarkable growth over the past quarter century. Recently, attention has also focussed on the fact that this growth has been associated with significant increases in inequality in both income and wealth distribution, which were relatively low during the central […]
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