Three 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 […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Discontent and protest are on the rise across China. Zhou Yongkang, China’s Minister of Public Security, reported recently that in 2004 there were 74,000 “mass incidents” – demonstrations, riots and other acts of civil disobedience. That’s an average of 200 a day; a worrisome number for China’s leaders, who, at a plenary […]
Read MoreChinese authorities often uses “state secrets” charges to arrest government critics and others who write or talk about sensitive political subjects, including journalists Zhao Yan and Shi Tao. Yet the government has...
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution announces that issue No.14 (Spring 2005) of the China Leadership Monitor is now available on-line. This issue includes: Foreign Policy–Thomas J. Christensen Old Problems Trump New Thinking: China’s Security Relations with Taiwan, North Korea, and Japan Recent months have hardly been proud ones for People’s Republic of China (PRC) security policy. On […]
Read MoreOn the same issue of rural associations, China analyst David Cowhig introduced another China scholar’s work. Here is the email from David: Yu Jianrong of CASS also says that peasants organizing themselves to represent their own interests is the only way they will be able to solve their problems. Yu suggests that China should let […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: As part of the BBC’s China Week, Haoyu Zhang of BBC Chinese.com looks at the country’s continued intolerance of any form of political dissent. Ever since President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao formally took power more than two years ago, they have called on officials to put people’s interests first and […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaView.cn: ” Powerful arguments over the possibility of abolishing the death penalty in China have been voiced following the academic conference “the International Symposium on the Death Pnalty” held last month at Xiangtan in Hunan province. Legal experts at the conference argued that China would need to limit the use of capital punishment when […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: “Opium has always been associated, for better or worse, with China. And almost invariably it’s been for the worse. The myth, in both the Christian West and the communist East, has been that this pernicious substance was brought to the Celestial Empire by the perfidious British, forced onto a gullible people, […]
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail has published a special edition that focuses almost entirely on China and includes articles about modern Shanghai, migrant workers, the environment, China’s spiritual vacuum, sex, drugs, and...
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