The 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
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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
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
Emily 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
Five Feminists Remain Jailed in China for Activities the Government Supports已关闭评论
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An 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
The Education of Detained Chinese Feminist Li Tingting已关闭评论
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Re-education through labourL is a thing of the past, but criminal detention now takes its place
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Verna Yu
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Police 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
How China is using criminal detention in place of re-education through labour已关闭评论
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The 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
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The death of the elderly Chinese scholar Zhou Ruchang, noted recently Continue reading
China’s Story of the Stone: the best book you’ve never heard of已关闭评论
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Jung 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
Book Review: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China已关闭评论
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