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2024: Suicide in China 中国自杀现象 (via Chinese language 维基百科）

Posted on 06/09/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

During the 1990s, the suicide rate among rural women was the highest in the PRC. I recall vividly a meeting with experts from the section of the PRC Ministry of Agriculture (around 1998 while working in the US Embassy Beijing … Continue reading →

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2023: Controversies on Death of Mao’s Son Mao Anying During the Korean War

Posted on 11/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Comparing a recent Yahoo Taiwan news story with Wikipedia articles in various languages about Mao’s son Mao Anying. As you might expect, the Russian articles provides much more detail about his ten years in the Soviet Union as a student … Continue reading →

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2011: Mao Zedong on Life and Death

Posted on 10/17/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Mao Zedong, always an intriguing mix of idealism and militant materialism, would often say that when he would die he would go to meet Marx. Some examples and discussion of this are in the recent blog article here 2023: Mao … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXVI: Final Cultural Revolution Shockwaves

Posted on 04/21/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Kong Linping in his memoir tells the story of a murderous terraced paddy field and road construction project that killed many of the slave laborers in his labor camp. Chongqing author Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir describes twenty-two years in Chinese … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir VIII: The Great Famine

Posted on 03/23/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Previous installment: Rightist Memoir VII: The Death Valley of Xixika Section Three  A Dark Summer In the early 1980s, I read some documents written by Chongqing City Communist Party Committee Secretary Liao Bokang. Yang Shangkun had, on the basis of the  … Continue reading →

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Kong Lingping’s Memoir: Political Prisoners “Searching for the Light” at the Close of The Cultural Revolution

Posted on 02/20/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is another passage from the long (920 pages in Chinese) memoir Bloody Chronicles from long-time (22 years) rightist slave labor camp prisoner Kong Lingping 孔令平. In 2010 Kong’s Hong Kong publisher sent me copies of his books. By that … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir “Blood Chronicles” : Cultural Revolution’s End

Posted on 11/25/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This chapter treats some of the Cultural Revolution years (mid 60s to mid 70s) at the Yanyuan reform through labor prison farm for political prisoners. Chongqing author Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir describes twenty-two years in Chinese prison camps and subsequent … Continue reading →

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Tiananmen Parents: Farewell Letter to Our Son (June 6, 1989)

Posted on 06/03/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Farewell Letter to My Son (June 6, 1989) by Ding Zilin and Jiang Peikun Lianlian, our dearest treasure: Father and Mother don’t have the strength to give you a send-off. We will wait at home for your return. Your elder … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #39 The 43rd Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 5, 2020

Posted on 03/06/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

“Were the interventions to be introduced 5 days earlier than they had been, the number of cases nationwide would have been two-thirds less.” Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #37: The 41st Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 3, 2020

Posted on 03/04/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 3 Forty-first Day of the Wuhan City Closure A secondary disaster resulting from our epidemic home confinement has been making my parents and “sick at the sight of one another”. To them, anything I do or say is wrong. … Continue reading →

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