From The LA Times: When Li Xuanyao, a student at Beijing’s No. 55 Middle School, wants to learn about the Great Leap Forward, she has her work cut out for her. Mao Tse-tung’s disastrous 1950s policy, which saw 30 million Chinese die of starvation, is relegated to a few paragraphs in her 163-page history textbook. […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Here in a bleak stretch of eastern China, Mr. Li, 40, spent two years in a prison called Shandong No. 2 Labor Re-education Camp. Mr. Li, who spoke on condition that only his surname be used, and other...
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending following article to CDT: In “Research on the Overall Population and Female Fertility in the Chinese Mainland During the Late Twentieth Century” (article translated below) Liang Zhongtang of the Shanxi Province People’s Government Economic Research Center in the 5/2003 issue of Shengcanli Yanjiju [Productivity Research] pp. 147 […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Xinran writes: And I am not joking when I tell you that, even now, many university students believe babies come out of their mothers’ tummy buttons. China started sex education in primary schools in 2002. I was curious to know who the first group of teachers would be. I was told that […]
Read MoreFrom Peopledaily: In a five-point proposal on the development of Sino-Japanese relations, Chinese President Hu Jintao said the two countries should further strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields so as to increase mutual understanding, promote mutual interests and keep bilateral relations on a healthy track. After China and Japan normalized relations in 1972, the […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: China’s 68 million Communist Party members have spent the past few months attending self-criticism meetings to address their personal and professional shortcomings as part of Party chief and China’s President Hu Jintao’s “Education Campaign of Maintaining Party Members’ Advanced Nature.” But the exercise isn’t taken as seriously as it was during the […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: Chinese police have paraded 42 anti-Japanese protesters on television, in the clearest sign that the communist leadership is determined to halt violent demonstrations and set a friendlier tone towards Tokyo. Some of the detainees, caught on camera hurling bottles and vandalising Japanese restaurants and cars in Shanghai 11 days ago, made public […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Cultural relic experts and NGOs will go abroad to reclaim China’s national treasures. The China Cultural Relics Recovery Program, funded by the China Foundation for the Development of Folklore Culture, announced a large-scale program Monday to claim back Chinese cultural relics scattered around the world. The group said it would mainly look for […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times, via A Glimpse of the World: The United States, ever quick to criticize China for human rights abuses, has of late been remarkably silent about Japan’s ethical lapses, current and historical. Japanese politicians and publishers have made a cottage industry of denying the 1937 Nanking Massacre in which the Japanese killed hundreds […]
Read MoreAbout the recent Anti-Japan protests, Edward Friedman writes: The protests are abnormal. Student protests especially in spring time are natural all over the world. Studies of student protests show that the targets tend to be...
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