In a long and intriguing essay in this past week’s Economic Observer (ÁªèʵéËßÇÂØüÊä•), former Party newspaper man Zhou Ruijin (Âë®ÁëûÈáë) reminisces about his role in reinvigorating Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms during the down years after June 4th. As deputy chief ed of the Liberation Daily (ËߣÊîæÊó•Êä•), Zhou was the author behind four breakthrough editorials that […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Xi Jinping was elected as Party secretary of the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China today at the first plenary session of the Ninth CPC Shanghai Committee. Xi, born in June 1953, joined the CPC in January 1974. Xi was appointed as Shanghai Party chief on March 24. He is […]
Read MoreLiang Jing (梁京) wrote the following commentary (see original Chinese version here). Many thanks to David Kelly of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore for providing the translation to CDT: What can a...
Read MoreFrom Liuqiang.space.univs.cn, translated by CDT: Xie Xiaozhuan, from a farming family in Hunan, graduated from Suzhou University in 2004 and enrolled into a graduate program at People’s University in Beijing. He itemized his expenditure during his four-year college to give people an idea of how much a peasant family pay for a college student. The […]
Read MoreIn the March 25 issue of Phoenix Weekly, an “anonymous” ex-inmate recounts life in the Chinese prison system: Prisoners who’ve just gone in will get a hazing from long-time inmates. Normally, the block monitor himself – the group leader of the cell – will dress them down, and there are all sorts of ways of […]
Read MoreFrom Chongqing Morning Post, via ChinaNews.com: Police Armored Vehicles used for the first time in the streets of Chongqing. [Full text in Chinese] The background advertising billboards read: “TOSHIBA”,...
Read MoreRecently, a poor county on the Yangtze used video to run reconnaissance on the work habits of its officials. In three days of clandestine shooting, a crew of disciplinary agents in Zigui County (Hubei) caught more than 200 colleagues screwing off on the job. Leaders screened the film internally at a county-wide meeting, eliciting the […]
Read MoreIn spite of the government media blackout, the “nailhouse” story continues online. Some bloggers such as QianTuWuLiang are posting following quotes from Mao in cyberspace. The translation is on the Reading China blog: Mao is always quoted for critique of Chinese government.A few years ago, there was an airport to be built in a place […]
Read MoreFrom OSC Analysis: Authoritative PRC leadership statements and commentary surrounding the annual plenary meeting of the party’s Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) suggest that the party’s current campaign against corruption has been intensified and is focused on curbing corruption at the lower levels of the party and the government.¬† The steady stream of reports in […]
Read MoreSince author Zhang Yihe published her “My Statement and Position” on Janurary 19, 2007, many intellectuals and ordinary citizens have publicly expressed their support for Ms. Zhang in cyberspace. The following...
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