Monthly Archives: 7 月 2014

Tienchi Martin-Liao：Dictatorship is a Decapitator, Whether it Tortures You or Treats You Well

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / October 23, 2013

On the contrasting lives of Chinese dissidents in prison.

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Human rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao. Photo: Courtesy of Tienchi Marin-Liao. Continue reading →

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YU HUA: Voting in China, a Distant Dream

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JULY 11, 2014

BEIJING — I am 54, but have never in my life seen an election ballot.

“Have you seen one?” I ask people, out of curiosity. Like me, most of them have no idea what a ballot looks like and have only seen pictures on television of people completely unknown to them clutching a Continue reading →

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Song Zhibiao: The Phenomenon of the Global Times

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published: July 13, 2014

 

At the beginning of last year, a friend proposed that we conduct a volunteer project — we do a sustained exposure and critique of the false reports and fraudulent op-eds coming out of the Global Times (Chinese version). I can imagine that this would be an onerous task requiring updates almost every day. In the end, the proposal was shelved and became a joke between friends. After all, it’s no fun cleaning up filth every day. Continue reading →

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Fall of China’s top anchor lifts veil on paid news racket

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Updated: July 14, 2014 20:04 IST 

 

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Every evening, millions of young Chinese tune in to State broadcaster Continue reading →

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GSK probe pair Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzeng indicted for illegally obtaining private information

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PUBLISHED : Monday, 14 July, 2014, 3:52pm

UPDATED : Tuesday, 15 July, 2014, 12:34pm
Alice Yan
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The drug-maker, which is the target of a bribery probe in China, Continue reading →

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The Settlers-‘China’s Second Continent,’ by Howard W. French

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By ALEXIS OKEOWOJULY 10, 2014

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At an oil-drilling site in Sudan in 2008, a Chinese employee teaches Sudanese workers to read Chinese characters for “Hello China, we are friends.” Credit Hu Qingming/Imaginechina, via Corbis Continue reading →

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Penguin Books’ China eSpecials – World War I, History & Politics

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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

I stumbled across the first four of these eBook specials earlier today, and thought I’d share the information. With the UK and elsewhere paying a lot of

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The Fault in Our DNA-‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ and ‘Inheritance’

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By DAVID DOBBSJULY 10, 2014

 

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Credit Pablo Delcán

In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came to rule the world largely because their rich outbred their poor Continue reading →

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