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The Egg and the Wall

November 1, 2010
By Andy Yee
The Egg and the Wall

The perils of public discussions in terms of egg and wall.
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Chinese reactions on the Chile mine rescue

October 18, 2010
By Andy Yee
Chile

The successful rescue of 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for 69 days had drawn a lot of comments from netizens in China. China’s coal mining industry is considered one of the most dangerous in the world. According to official figures, 2,631 coal miners died in 1,616 mine accidents in China in 2009, but...
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Social Criticism in China

September 8, 2010
By Andy Yee

‘A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in,’ said Abraham Cowley, a seventeenth-century English poet. In a sense, this can be used to describe the politics in China: for the conscious social critics, there is so much to criticize, so many corrupted leaders, unreasonable policies,...
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‘State Capitalism’ and Murdoch’s retreat from China

August 14, 2010
By Andy Yee
‘State Capitalism’ and Murdoch’s retreat from China

The relationship between Chinese state capitalism and western multinationals.
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Public Intellectuals in China

June 11, 2010
By Andy Yee
Public Intellectuals in China

Liu Gang offers his thoughts on the different kinds of "public intellectuals" that exist in today's China.
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Criticizing Han Han

April 22, 2010
By Andy Yee
Criticizing Han Han

We like to listen to Han Han, and his critics too.
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Stability Preservation in China

April 10, 2010
By Andy Yee
Stability Preservation in China

The Chinese government puts the maintenance of social stability as a paramount task. But Social unrest, or what is called mass incidents in Chinese, have been increasing.
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An Insider's Account of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Part II)

March 11, 2010
By Andy Yee

Zhang Boshu, a political philosopher and constitutional scholar, continues to share his long experience at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in a second article (also see Part I).
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Types within the Fifty Cents Party

March 5, 2010
By Andy Yee

Last month, Xiao Han, an outspoken intellectual at the Chinese Politics and Law University, wrote a piece which classifies China’s Fifty Cents Party into different types.
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An Insider’s Account of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

February 22, 2010
By Andy Yee

ChinaGeeks welcomes Andy Yee, who you may know from his own blog or Global Voices Online, to our team of contributors! -Ed. In a recent article, Zhang Boshu, political philosopher and constitutional scholar, shared his own experience at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China’s largest think tank.
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