We don’t have a lot of rules here at ChinaGeeks, but there are some simple guidelines we ask our writers to follow most of the time. Please read all of this, and bookmark the page so that you can check back on it when you are unsure of something. For First-Time Writers If you’re...
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Twenty years ago, a group of college students sat quietly at the entrance to the Great Hall of the people and raised a poster with seven demands:
They're called "Little Emperors" -- children whose experience has been shaped by the twin forces of increasing financial prosperity and the Chinese government policy dictating that they are only children -- and the first real generation of them is coming of age. They are arguably the richest and best-educated generation of Chinese ever. So...
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At the risk of boring everyone and getting this website swept under the Great Firewall, we’ll add a few short thoughts about Tibet. As the CCP keeps a lockdown on Tibet, information is scarce and hard to come by, even more than usual. There’s a certain sore spot on China’s part against the Western...
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Part II: Hauntings.
As long as people have been around there have been reports of ghosts. Indeed, Chinese culture has a long and rich history of belief in otherworldly spirits, especially the spirits of the dead, and the ways they affect the living. These days, many people (Westerners and Chinese) have written off these traditional...
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Gao Zhisheng is a Chinese firebrand lawyer-turned human rights activist. He’s taken up the cross for cases ranging from underground Christian sects to democracy activists, displaced homeowners and more. Gao’s opponent in and out of court has traditionally been one face or another of the CCP, and he’s been a thorn in the Party’s...
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