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Kong Lingping II: My Days of Being Struggled Against and the Perversion of the Human Spirit
This is part two of my translation of Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir Blood Chronicle. Here Kong Lingping, a student in mechanical engineering at Chongqing University when the Anti-Rightist Campaign began, is persecuted because of his family background — his parents … Continue reading
Posted in "Blood Chronicle" -- A Rightist Memoir, Economy 经济, History 历史, Ideology 思想
Tagged Blood Chronicle, China, Chinese, Communist Party, countryside, 重庆, 血纪, famine, Great Leap Forward, History 历史, hunger, Kong Lingping, Mao Zedong, memoir, politics, Politics 政治, PRC, rightist, starvation, village, 共产党, 右派, 回忆录, 孔令平, 中国, 人民公社
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1957：Seeking Teachers and Friends Among Non-Party Members
This opinion piece appeared on page two of the May 12, 1957 issue of People’s Daily just as the Hundred Flowers Campaign was beginning. If you had read this article or heard about it in those days would you have … Continue reading
Posted in History 历史, Ideology 思想
Tagged China, Chinese, Communist Party, 荀子, 非党人士, Hundred Flowers, Mao Zedong, Marxism, politics, PRC, UFWD, United Front Work Department, 共产党, 孔子, 中国
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China State Post Bureau Cautions Against Foreign Mail, Imports as Possible Source of Covid-19 Contagion
Aiming to bring domestic transmission of COVID-19 from scatter cases to zero, China is taking measures of the potential but as yet unconfirmed possibility that imports and mail delivery could result in new COVID-19 cases in China. A July 2021 … Continue reading
Posted in COVID and Wuhan Diary Diary, Economy 经济, Health 健康
Tagged China, Chinese, contagion, contagious, contamination, COVID, COVID-19, decontamination, epidemic, express service, foreign mail, import, infection, mail, pandemic, post office, PRC, prevention, processing, SARS-CoV-2, Trade, 中国邮政
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A PLA Perspective on Civil Service Compensation and Military Retirement Options
Anonymous articles, apparently written from the perspective of a serving PLA officer on changes in the PRC civil service system, especially outside the capital, where the local authorities have the authority to set additional bonuses that can be set for … Continue reading
Posted in Military 军事, Society 社会
Tagged career, China, Chinese, civil service, Communist Party, incentive pay, military, military reform, military strength, officer, personnel, PLA, policy, PRC, reform, retention, retirement, takehome pay, transfer, 共产党, 中国
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2022 PRC Civil Service Township Pay Scales, Subidies and Benefits
Pension and social insurance reforms may reduce takehome pay somewhat. I just saw articles about 2022 PRC pay for local officials and for PLA. For both, some subsidies are being rolled into base pay with the subsidies abolished. Take home … Continue reading
Posted in Economy 经济, Military 军事, Politics 政治
Tagged base pay, benefits, cadres, China, Chinese, civil servant, compensatiojn, compensation, grade level, insurance, official, pay, pension, PLA, PRC, recruitment, township, village, 中国
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2022 PLA Pay Increase
2022 PLA Pay Increase Latest News 2022军人涨工资吗？2022军人涨工资最新消息 Zhicheng Finance 至诚财经 2022-01-07 14:52 [monthly pay in RMB Chinese yuan] Will military wages go up in 2022? By how much? The new standard, the implementation of the annual “New Year’s Day, Spring … Continue reading
Posted in Military 军事
Tagged 2022, China, Chinese, 解放军, military, pay, pay increase, PLA, PRC, 中国
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PRC: Massive Disinfection of Domestic and Foreign Mail
As China struggles to eliminate and prevent coronvirus infections to stay close to or at zero infections, it seems that even the low probability chance of infection by mail is important. From what I read on the Internet (well sources … Continue reading
Posted in Health 健康
Tagged Beijing, China, contact, contact tracing, coronavirus, disinfection, epidemic, express mail, Haidian, health, infection, international mail, mail, media, pandemic, Peking, PRC, public, social media, twitter, 中国
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520 BCE: Ancient Chinese on the Roots of Democracy in China
Translation of a passage from the Spring and Autumn Annals. The word I translate as school can also mean the village meeting place; it probably served both purposes. I started with the translation into modern Chinese with notes and commentary … Continue reading
Posted in Literature 文学, Politics 政治
Tagged ancient, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Confucius, democracy, 郑, governance, government, PRC, school, Spring and Autumn Annals, state of Zheng, Zheng, 春秋繁露, 中国
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