From the Guardian: Before handing over to my colleague Jonathan Watts in 2003, I covered a range of important stories to which I had been alerted by excellent reporting in the Chinese press or TV. There were powerful exposes of mining and environmental disasters linked to official corruption, of the plight of migrant workers cheated […]
In the Guardian, Martin Jacques reviews “The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market” by John Gittings: Gittings is one of that rare breed of journalists who has maintained a specialist interest in his subject for so long and with such thoroughness that he commands the respect of academic specialists and journalists alike. In […]
From the Guardian, via A Glimpse of the World: Fifty years ago this month, when China was finally at peace after decades of war, Mao Zedong launched a new revolution in the countryside – for reasons that are still highly controversial. Mao insisted that the peasants wanted more and bigger cooperatives; they were a “blank […]
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