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Monthly Archives: March 2021
Mianyang Memories and a Press Clipping: Upcoming October 2021 PRC Military/Civilian Science Fair in Mianyang Restricted Area
Below is a press release Report on an upcoming S&T fair in Mianyang S&T City to be held in October 2021. Mianyang is the the home of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics Ninth Physics Institute [web page Google Translated] … Continue reading
Posted in History 历史, Military 军事, Science, Technology and Academic 科技学术
Tagged atomic, bomb, China, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Cultural Revolution, 物理, 绵阳, Deng Jiaxian, 邓稼先, Mianyang, nuclear, persecution, PRC, restricted area, science fair, Sichuan, suicide, weapons, 军事, 文革, 核子, 中国, 九所, 人民公园
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2021: PRC State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi Interviewed by media at the end of his visit to five African countries
PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi went to Africa on January 4 – 9 2021. There were some English language press coverage. This Xinhua account machine translated from Chinese seems more complete. Below I have also copied machine translations of Xinhua … Continue reading
Posted in Economy 经济, Foreign Relations 外交
Tagged Africa, Botswana, China, Congo, diplomacy, Foreign Minister, Nigeria, PRC, Seychelles, Tanzania, Wang Yi
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2020: Shen Zhihua on State of Chinese Research on Relations with Neighboring Asian Countries
PRC diplomatic history scholar Shen Zhihua’s talk at a 2020 Tsinghua University “Workshop on China’s Border Regions and Asia” 中国边疆与亚洲研究”学术工作坊 is on YouTube. In 2009，China’s Central Military Commission wondered why are relations with the DPRK so very difficult? Shen said those … Continue reading
Posted in Bilateral Relations, Foreign Relations 外交, History 历史, Politics 政治
Tagged archives, Asia, China, 邊疆, foreign relations, periphery, PRC, relations, 外交, 外交部, 朝鮮, 沈志華
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1997: PRC Anti-Corruption Novel “The Wrath of God”: Insights into Official Corruption
I lived in Beijing from 1996 to 2001. One of the better books I read during those days was Cheng Fang’s Tiannu [The Wrath of God available online at 天怒 ] a banned novel based on a Beijing Municipality corruption … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption 腐败, Literature 文学, Politics 政治, Society 社会
Tagged banned, campaign, censorship, Chen Xitong, China, collapse, Communist Party, Corruption 腐败, 腐败, Jiang Zemin, literature, Literature 文学, novel, politics, Politics 政治, state, 共产党, 北京, 反贪局, 天怒, 小说, 中国
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China’s Huayuquan 话语权 — Does it mean ‘China’s Right to Speak’ or ‘the Right to Control Discourse About China’
China’s huayuquan is sometimes translated as China’s right to speak. When I read an article about it in a 2009 article in the Communist Party’s ideological journal Qiushi I got the impression that huayuquan meant China should have the dominant … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology 思想, Media 媒体, Politics 政治
Tagged Anchorage, bilateral, Blinken, China, Chinese, Communist Party, control the narrative, diplomacy, diplomat, discourse, 话语权, Foucault, Mao, Mao Zedong, media, Michel Foucault, politics, power, public opinion, Qiushi, revolutionary, right to speak, Secretary of State, translation, Wolf warrior, Yang Jiechi
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2009: Behind the Hurt Feelings of the Chinese People — A Threat to the Regime
The Xinhua publication Global Times on its websites offered a list and map of countries that have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people [(URL link to audio) shānghàile zhōngguó rénmín de gǎnqíng 伤害了中国人民的感情] over the past few decades. Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Relations 外交, Ideology 思想, Society 社会
Tagged China, dynasty, foreigners, humiliation, hurt feelings, international, nation, nationalism, nationalist, politics, PRC, Qing, tension, Unhappy China, Wolf warrior, 中国不高兴, 中国人民的感情
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Tools for Building Specialized and Technical Vocabulary for Chinese Language Learners
Intermediate and advanced professional learners of Chinese at some point may want to look for Chinese-language materials in their areas of interest. I copied below, as an example of a DeepL machine translation, a translation of an article on the … Continue reading
Posted in Bilateral Relations, Literature 文学, Media 媒体
Tagged 5000yan.com, academic, accent, advanced, bilateral, Bilateral Relations, book, bopomofo, Boston, censor, censorship, China, Chinese, Chinese-English, classical text, classification, CNKI, database, DeepL, dictionary, diplomatic relations, encyclopedia, foreign ministry, foreign relations, Google Lens, government, gujin wenxuan, history, language, learning Chinese, lianbo jiemu, library, lyrics, machine translation, Mandarin, Mandarin Daily, MOFA, Nathan Sivin, news, Pleco, PRC, PRC MOFA, pronunciation, reference, sing, Sino-US, songs, Spotify, Story of English, student, study, Taiwan, teaching, tool, tools, transcript, translation, translator, US - China, US-China, vocabulary, website, wiki, Wikipedia, YouTube, 历史, 古今文选, 国语日报, 外交关系, 中美关系, 中国, 中文
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A Sign of the Times: Party Propaganda Reaching for New Heights of Absurdity
China’s real achievements in lifting great numbers of its people out of poverty are still accompanied by bodyguards of lies. It makes me wonder why China’s Communist Party could be surprised at how little credibility it has both within China … Continue reading
Posted in History 历史, Ideology 思想, Media 媒体
Tagged China, China Media Project, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, deng xiaoping, General Secretary, Great Leap Forward, He Qinglian, household responsibility system, leadership, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, media, Party, politics, PRC, propaganda, reform, Secretary, Xi Jinping, 共产党, 和清廉, 媒体, 宣传, 总书记, 控制, 中国, 习近平, 书记
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Basic Cell of First-half PRC Economic and Political Organization: The Work Unit
The unit or work unit (gongzuo danwei 工作单位） was a key feature of the first half of the PRC’s history although it faded away after the Second Founding of the PRC led by Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping and others. One … Continue reading
Posted in Economy 经济, History 历史, Politics 政治
Tagged 1949, China, Communist Party, Confucius, control, cultural zone, economy, historical, history, Mao, Mao Zedong, New China, nihilism, Northeast, politics, reform, reform and opening up, renaissance, unit system, work unit, Xi Jinping, 共产党, 制度, 单位, 改革开放, 毛泽东, 中国
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From Yang Jisheng’s Book: China’s Workers on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution
These days I have been reading Yang Jisheng’s 【楊繼繩】 massive book 天地翻覆——中國文化大革命史 (上篇) [The World Turned Upside Down — the History of China’s Cultural Revolution]. I just came across a nice capsule description of the China’s post-1949 unit system for … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Revolution, Economy 经济, History 历史, Politics 政治
Tagged China, Chinese, class, Communist Party, control, Cultural Revolution, high school, housing, ideology, land, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, murder, peasants, people's commune, PRC, Red Guards, revolution, students, summary, The World Turned Upside Down, totalitarian, translation, University, work unit, worker, workers, working class, working conditions, 单位, 工作单位, 人民公社
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高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog 