He Zuoxiu, a 78 year old self-claimed Marxist is member of Chinese Academy of Science and is a science delegate to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that advises the Chinese legislature. He is also a crusader against supernatural and “unscientific” thinking. The following interview was published on the Southern People’s Weekly, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Here […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: In the early 1950s, Liu Binyan was a tall, eloquent young man deeply devoted to the ideals of socialism and set for a brilliant career in the People’s Republic of China. When he was purged from the Communist Party in 1957 for writing about corruption and banished to a poor mountain village, […]
Read MoreFrom Stratfor (by subscription only, 7 day free pass available): Last week, a group of Chinese villagers staged a demonstration against a wind-power project near Shanwei, a town in Guangdong province about 100 miles from Hong Kong. In the first incident, protesters blocked access to the site of the wind-power generation project. The next day, […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Boston.com: The violence Dec. 6 in Dongzhou, northeast of Hong Kong, was the deadliest in a series of confrontations throughout China between police and villagers angry at corruption and land seizures.Witnesses said police fired rounds for more than 12 hours as thousands demonstrated over inadequate compensation for land used to build a […]
Read MorePity China’s propaganda-meisters. Since the truth broke that the Songhua River was accidentally spiked with a blast of benzene, the party’s Central Publicity Department (CPD), charged with the somewhat absurd task of covering up a screwed-up cover-up, have tried and failed twice. The mess has only gotten uglier. Now the spokesman who first sounded of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has prosecuted and punished nearly 50,000 corrupt officials at various levels in the on-going nationwide anti-corruption drive in the recent two years, said a senior official with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The Chinese government and law enforcement organs have made vigorous and continuous efforts in combating corruption, said Wang Zhenchuan, deputy procurator-general […]
Read MoreFrom the Manila Times via East Asia News: Thousands of Chinese who petition the authorities for redress of grievances are attacked, intimidated and detained, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. Activists trying to help them are also beaten and arrested, according to the report by the international watchdog entitled: “We Could Disappear […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: In the recent local elections, Taiwan’s voters have dealt the Democratic National Party (DPP) a huge loss. How can we explain this strong and relatively sudden decline in the DPP’s support among the electorate? First, in most mature democracies, voters eventually vote out the government and vote in the opposition. In […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Liu Binyan, the forceful dissident writer who repeatedly exposed official corruption and openly challenged the Chinese Communist Party to reform itself before and after he was exiled to the United States in the late 1980’s, died Monday. He was 80 years old and lived in East Windsor, N.J. The cause […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The prominent Chinese dissident writer, Liu Binyan, has died at the age of 80 in the US, reports say. Mr Liu had lived in exile in the US for the past 18 years and had been suffering from cancer. He was the son of a railway worker and joined the underground Communist […]
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