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Monthly Archives: September 2018
2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches
Round-Table on Internet and Free Flow of Information in China Statement by David Cowhig, Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches Presented to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China April 15, 2002 I would like to share with you some thoughts about … Continue reading
Why Don’t We Know Anything (or Not Much) About China?
Good article in the March 2018 issue of Foreign Policy! Also reminded of this by a most graphic graphic shared by the always intriguing and hilarious fake PRC tweeter @RelevantOrgans. People do tend to notice opacity. But it can take … Continue reading
Posted in Politics 政治, Society 社会
Tagged China, decentralization, 透明度, 领导, governance, government, leadership, opacity, political, subordinate, system, understand, understanding, Xi Jinping, 制度, 双领导, 政府, 政治, 中国, 习近平, 书记
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PRC Protests Swedish Human Rights Violation as Violent Reservationless Chinese Tourist is Evicted From Fully Booked Hotel by Swedish Police
Chinese press making a big human rights case out of three Chinese tourists who arrived a day earlier than their reservation, the hotel was full, they stayed in the lobby for hours, got violent, police called, at least one was … Continue reading
Christian Church Standoff in Zhengzhou, China
What happened after the Zhengzhou, Henan authorities posted the Illegal Religious Meeting Violation Notice in Zhengzhou, China that was translated in a previous post: [English translation] (Pray for Us News) Brothers and sisters throughout China, we are the Zhengzhou Gaoxin District Christian … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology 思想, Society 社会
Tagged China, Christian, Christianity, Communist Party, 郑州, 自由, freedom, Henan, persecution, religion, Zhengzhou, 共产党, 基督教, 宗教, 河南, 中国
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2018: PRC Religious Information Control Draft Regulations Released for Comment
Via Google Translate, lightly massaged. The PRC State Council issued the following draft regulations with a request for comment. The date the draft regulations may go into effect, apparently later this year, is not clear. The draft regulations are very … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology 思想, Law 法律, Society 社会
Tagged China, cyber, 管理, 网络, 自由, freedom, information, net, network, regulations, religion, religious, religious affairs bureau, 宗教, 宗教局, 征求意见稿, 中国, 互联网, 信息
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Illegal Religious Meeting Violation Notice in Zhengzhou, China
Reverend Francis Liu on Twitter passed along a photo (see below) taken in September 9, 2018 posted by Chinese authorities aiming to close down an illegal religious meeting place in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, China’s most populous province. English … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology 思想, Society 社会
Tagged China, Communist Party, freedom, Henan, persecution, religion, Zhengzhou, 共产党, 中国
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Declassified Chinese Diplomatic Documents from the 1950s and 1960s in the Wilson Center Digital Archive
Lately I have been translating some declassified Chinese diplomatic archives for the Wilson Center Digital Archive. I have done twenty so far. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/search-results/1/%7B%22search-in%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22term%22%3A%22cowhig%22%7D?recordType=Record A few are particularly memorable. I enjoyed translating Ziguang Hall literally rather than just using … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Relations 外交, History 历史, Politics 政治
Tagged Algeria, China, Chinese, classified, 秘密, diplomacy, English, 解密, France, Francois Mitterand, Mao, Mao Zedong, Mitterand, secret, translation, Vietnam, Wilson Center, 外交, 文件, 机密
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Musings on Pseudo Science 伪科学 and Cures for It
A recent Economist book review about pseudo science (伪科学 to you sino-literates out there) in personality testing got me thinking about the damage I have seen done by abuse of tests of no scientific validity. The Economist book review is … Continue reading
Posted in Apparitions, UFOs, SciFi, Science, Technology and Academic 科技学术, Society 社会
Tagged bomb detector, China, fake, NAS, pseudo-science, science, United States, US, 伪科学
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