Monthly Archives: 3月 2015

Lee Kuan Yew obituary

 

6bc4d2ee-5d8c-4d25-b946-db76391ad009-620x372The founding prime minister of an independent Singapore, he sought to encourage prosperity through ensuring a dominant role for the state

Lee Kuan Yew at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2001. He saw in the economic success of east Asia the triumph of ‘Confucian values’: discipline, order, Continue reading

Confucius and the World He Created by Michael Schuman

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21 March 2015 — Bertrand Russell once remarked that he didn’t write about Confucius because he found the Chinese sage “boring.” If Lord Russell had lived long enough to have read this book, Continue reading

China’s soft-power push, coming to a TV near you

AFP By Felicia Sonmez

March 20, 2015 2:00 AM

Beijing (AFP) – A hard hat-clad American TV host grips the bamboo-and-steel scaffolding, the dizzying urban landscape of China’s commercial centre Shanghai unfolding far below him.

“I’m bringing cameras and questions to places outsiders are rarely permitted, to investigate the aspirations of the world’s fastest-growing middle class,” architect Danny Forster tells Discovery viewers.

There is just one catch: both the cameras — and the questions — are co-funded by the Chinese government.

Beijing has long sought to boost its “soft power” abroad, spending billions of yuan on expanding the international presence of its state-run media — including broadcaster CCTV Continue reading

Five Feminists Remain Jailed in China for Activities the Government Supports

 

India China Activists DetainedEmily Rauhala / Beijing @emilyrauhala March 19, 2015

Altaf Qadri—AP
Indian women’s rights activists wearing masks of five women’s rights activists formally detained in China after Women’s Day crackdown, hold placards with their names, to express their solidarity and demand their immediate release, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The line between dissidence and social activism grows ever murkier
It was supposed to be a celebration. This year marks Continue reading

The Education of Detained Chinese Feminist Li Tingting

 

14021-litingting_0An Excerpt from “China’s Millennials: The Want Generation”

Eric Fish March 16, 2015

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Li Tingting is interviewed by members of the media during the Occupy Men’s Room demonstration in 2012.

On March 6, Chinese police detained a group of feminist activists ahead of International Women’s Day. Five of them, remain in criminal detention on suspicion of “picking quarrels and causing a disturbance,” Continue reading

How China is using criminal detention in place of re-education through labour

Re-education through labourL is a thing of the past, but criminal detention now takes its place

PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 April, 2014, 3:21am UPDATED : Monday, 21 April, 2014, 5:48pm

Verna Yu
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detentioncnPolice increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP

Keen to learn about the United Nations’ Continue reading

China’s Story of the Stone: the best book you’ve never heard of

dream_2290708cThe Story of the Stone is essential reading in China, yet this great work of literature is barely known in the English-speaking world
Weighty tomes: Chinese pensioner Zhang Enmao with some of his 1,250 copies of the novel ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’, also known as The Story of the Stone Photo: REX FEATURES

By John Minford7:00PM BST 28 Jul 2012Comments83 Comments

The death of the elderly Chinese scholar Zhou Ruchang, noted recently Continue reading

Book Review: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

thediplomat_2015-03-08_18-32-21-e1425903541595-386x351Jung Chang’s 2013 release, now available as an e-book, reflects on one of modern China’s most influential figures.
By Oliver Stuenkel
March 09, 2015

The Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is generally thought of as Continue reading