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The Last Revolution of Mao Zedong
This past week I finished reading MacFarquhar and Schoenhals book Mao’s Last Revolution on the Cultural Revolution. Allow me a couple of thoughts. First, on the book, I understand that the authors have a particular view of the events but would prefer more discussion of other possible interpretations of the events in their first chapter…
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Plethora of Possibilities
Lots of interesting news and punditry to pass along today. You can go to this link instead of scrolling down on the right to see some of the stories that I “share” through google reader. The “Chongqing nail house” was destroyed. Here‘s some info on the settlement. Discussion on the media’s coverage of the story.…
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The Once and Future Blocked Website
Last week sometime, *.blogspot.com was unblocked from here in China. I did not blog about this because I thought that it wouldn’t last. Well, it was either that or laziness. At any rate, blogspot is blocked again. My guess is that it will through one more cycle before I return to the States in July,…
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Blogspot blocked in China
Luckily, the government cares more about preventing the common people from reading blogs than stopping people from writing them. I have no problem logging in to blogger.com to write this post, but I cannot then go to my blog’s page to make sure that it turned out ok. So, if the blog starts looking ugly…
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Property Rights Law
The property rights law has passed. ChinaDaily.com has a helpful graphic to show how overwhelming support was: Of course, the NPC has never failed to pass legislation that has come up for a vote. The most famous expression of disapproval in recent memory is the 1992 vote on the Three Gorges Dam where 1767 approved,…
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Newspaper Subscribers
Jessica and I are now proud subscribers to The Beijing News. It’s a Chinese newspaper, but the webpage seems to get along with firefox better than most Chinese sites. Today’s issue had two interesting pieces/letters in the commentary section, which is page A02. The first discusses whether NPC delegates are able to have adequate time…
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Unexpected Secondary Effects
While trying to keep track of the budgetary commitments laid out in the new government work report (in Chinese), I found an interesting tidbit in an otherwise frustrating unclear piece. China Spends More on Rural Education…The move will relieve the financial burden on 150 million rural households with school-age children, who make up nearly 80…
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A Commemorative Colts Cake
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Super Bowl in Beijing
Watching the Colts win the Superbowl in our apartment in Beijing. Thanks to TVU Player we were able to follow the action with the CBS feed from the States rather than the delayed and presumably bad Chinese language broadcast on CCTV-5. n.b. Yes, that is the Reggie Wayne touchdown that Jessica’s impeccable timing captured live…
Jeremy Wallace 