Tag Archives: internet

2020: Online Jiangsu Troublemaker Got Two Years

Posted on 05/12/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Anxious to protect the Chinese people from those spreading incorrect thinking and people stirring up trouble (often the same people) PRC courts have been cracking down. An example is the two year sentence handed out to Jiang Tengda in 2020 … Continue reading →

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2024: VOA — PRC Cyber Police Identifying Followers of Overseas Critic

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading material on the Internet is increasingly being criminalized. Once spreading information like Ruan Xiaohuan (2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted) deemed false, harmful or unhealthy could get you into trouble. Simply reading it not so much. That … Continue reading →

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2022: Wei Jianing on the Zombification Risk for the Chinese Economy

Posted on 02/13/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese economist Wei Jianing‘s December 2022 talk China’s Economy at Risk of ‘Zombification’ was quickly banned in China. I am copying below my translation of Wei Jianing’s article which appeared in the U.S-China Times in Chinese. Following the translation is … Continue reading →

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2023: Taiwan’s Military Preparations — Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Posted on 01/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With an eye to growing intimidation efforts from the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan is boosting its military capabilities. Taiwan recently announced that it is extending compulsory military service from three months to one year to allow for better training of its … Continue reading →

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2022: Party Pragmatism, Party Totalitarianism and Rocks in the River

Posted on 12/15/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese Communist Party says reasonable things about learning from practice and then adjusting theory on the basis of experience in iterations of going between theory and practice. Somehow though, it seems that democratic centralism and the people’s democratic dictatorship … Continue reading →

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2016: The Dilemma and Future of the Principle of “Distinguishing Between the Internal and the External” neiwai youbie

Posted on 03/02/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese propaganda principle of “distinguish the internal from the external’ neiwai youbie has some similarities to the public communications principle of “know your audience”. The state authority enforcing this principle and the ideological self-defense dimensions of neiwai youbie has … Continue reading →

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Yu Ying-shih on The ‘Gentleman’ and the Confucian Ideal

Posted on 11/04/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Lately I have been reading the Analects Confucius with two friends who also worked in China and read Chinese. We have been working through the original text assisted by the translation and commentaries of Annping Chin and myriad Chinese language … Continue reading →

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Kinamedia: How “Historical Nihilism” Shapes China’s Film Industry

Posted on 09/05/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Thanks to the magic of Google Translate even the scandoilliterates among you may find interesting Linus Fredriksson’s article on historical nihilism and the Chinese film industry. Now on the Swedish website  Kinamedia. For more on historical nihilism in China see also: 2016: CASS … Continue reading →

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Fiction Award Prize Joke Reflects Local ‘Little Big Brother’ Corruption

Posted on 08/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China has a micro-fiction prize. This must have been the inspiration for the joke below. It is circulating online in the PRC. Imperial China had a rule of avoidance — officials were not allowed to be the top leader in … Continue reading →

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2002: Wired China: Many Hands on Many Switches

Posted on 08/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Back in 2002, a half-year after my return from five years working in the science section of US Embassy Beijing, I wrote to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to share with them my views on the Internet and the control … Continue reading →

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