"Just because someone involved in the discussions has also occasionally expressed passion for democracy, in the discussion they're labeled "democratic personages" and mocked by others when there is a difference of opinion between them. Because of this, democracy itself is called into question too."
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"The system of values a country embraces is inextricably linked to the fate of that country’s youth."
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Twitter is a veritable who's who of Chinese dissidents, laid out for government agents on a pretty blue background. But there may be a bigger issue.
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The Chongqing Evening News runs the gutsiest news story we've read all year -- a frank retelling of the story of Google's exodus, hidden in plain sight through mythologizing and anthropomorphization.
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Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was presumed dead by many a few months ago, suddenly called his wife yesterday, and told reporters he had been free for the past six months. What, exactly, is going on here?
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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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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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The following is a translation of selections from this blog post by Wan Xiaodao. These suggestions may not be particularly feasible economically speaking, but they’re worth reading because they speak to the dissatisfaction that exists in the rural labor community. Translation Under the influence of the financial crisis that swept the globe last year,...
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In the wake of President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, and this CNN poll indicating most Americans think Tibet should be independent, the Dalai Lama went on Larry King Live. In keeping with that show’s tradition of internet straw polling, Larry asked viewers the same question CNN asked Americans last week: Should Tibet...
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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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