The following essay by Geremie R. Barm√© originally appeared in the Review weekly supplement, The Australian Financial Review, 31st March 2006. Published without notes under the title “Historical Distortions”. Thanks to Mr. Barm√© for allowing CDT to reprint it here. A Year of Some Significance By Geremie R. Barm√© History matters. It matters in Australia […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press via the Washington Post (link) China’s official Internet industry association is calling on its members to help the government suppress material deemed subversive or immoral. “Unhealthy information” online has harmed Chinese children and threatens social stability, the Internet Society of China said in a statement. The 5-year-old group is the government-sanctioned […]
Read MoreThe Non-Violent Resistance blog (link) summarizes and comments on an article on Sina.com about the murder of a Beijing University student: From the looks of it, this story has the potential of blowing into another huge judicial scandal. The facts are pretty straight — a real bad-ass student at the Medical School of Peking University […]
Read MoreThe following was posted by Karer on the Piaoyi blog (translated and internal links added by CDT): The Monthly Expenses of a Migrant Worker Yesterday noon, he finished his work in our company and squatted at the gate taking...
Read MoreFrom The Southern Daily (in Chinese), translated By Xiao Fang, Lindsey Finch, Abra Murray, Ramsi Woodcock; via Press Interpreter: At the end of every year the media comments on the year’s major events, but I like to look back on some of the year’s “details.” In the business world, there is an expression: “success and […]
Read MoreFrom Seed Magazine: For decades, China was barely a blip on the scientific radar. Communism’s arbitrary appointments, combined with the Cultural Revolution’s disdain for education, crippled Chinese science. But today China is in the midst of a scientific revolution. China’s current economic and political strategy, as named by President Hu Jintao at a recent Central […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog – AEB: China has “opened and reformed” for 25 years. Profound change has also taken place as “open” society gradually has demanded deeper “reform”. Every industry is checking what it has gained after China joined the WTO, and international reactions seem positive. But don’t forget that when China’ s economy tries […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China, known as a country with a history of benevolence, underlined charity at a national conference for the first time this week, calling upon the whole nation to aid those in need. “The meeting is a strong signal from the government for society to support social charities, and reveals a picture that charities […]
Read MoreThree prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have written an open letter to China’s representatives to the Congress of the Law of the World, which recently met in Shanghai, calling for the rule of law to be...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: In their new book, “Mao: The Unknown Story,” Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for Mao as the most monstrous tyrant ever. They argue that he was responsible for “well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader,” and they argue that “he […]
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