Person of the Week: Sun Liping
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Sun Liping (孙立平): Between Civilization and Barbarism
Tsinghua University Professor of Sociology Sun Liping last week launched the WeChat public account...
The Disintegration of Rural China
Joe Zhang, the author of “Party Man, Company Man: Is China’s State Capitalism Doomed?” and a...
One Author’s Plea for a Gentler China
Tea Leaf Nation translates a bleak essay on the state of Chinese society by Murong Xuecun, which was reposted on Sina Weibo over 36,000 times last week before being deleted. We live in an age when dust blocks the sky. Politics...
Occupy Chang’an Avenue?
In a guest post on ChinaGeeks, Alec Ash translates an essay by Wu Yun called Let’s “Occupy Chang’an Avenue” in which the author defends democracy and disputes previous claims by official Chinese media that the Occupy movement...
Who Is the Guilty Party?
At Inside Out China, Xujun Eberlein translates an anonymous friend’s account of trying to rectify a new apartment’s illegally modified electricity meter: Two years ago, I bought a tiny flat from a stranger. While...
Ryan Manuel: Will it be Hot Economics and Cold Politics Domestically in China Too?
From eastasiaforum.org: The second is that a downturn in growth may have different repercussions to those imagined. At the moment there is a school of thought arguing that, should the economy tank, the (central) Government will...
Sun Liping (孙立平): The Biggest Threat to China is not Social Turmoil but Social Decay (Part II)
Sun Liping (孙立平) is a professor in the Sociology Department of Tsinghua University. He was also the PhD superviser of Xi Jinping, the current vice-president of the People’s Republic of China and probable successor to...
Sun Liping (孙立平): The Biggest Threat to China is not Social Turmoil but Social Decay (Part I)
Sun Liping (孙立平) is a professor of the Sociology Department of Tsinghua University. He was also the PhD surperviser of Xi Jinping, the current vice-president of the People’s Republic of China. Professor Sun’s main...
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