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2024: Xi’s New Quality Productivity Innovation Builds China and Makes the World a Better Place

Posted on 06/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has recently been discussing grand strategies for China’s way forward. While Xi Jinping Thought has Xi’s name attached, it is a corporate enterprise refined over the years through a process of constant development, … Continue reading →

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2021: Reception of US SciFi in China; A Chinese SF Grandmaster — Ye Yonglie 叶永烈

Posted on 02/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ye Yonglie (1940-2020) Chinese author and occasional film director, sometimes under the pen-names Ye Yang, Ye Ting, Xiao Yong or Jiu Yuan, whose output stretches to fifty volumes of material, of which twenty-four are listed as “works popularizing science”. A … Continue reading →

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2012-22: PRC Scholars Criticize PRC Education (and More)

Posted on 05/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Four articles on the Qian Xusen Question : “None of the students cultivated over the years has had academic achievements comparable to those of the scholars cultivated in the Republic of China. Why do our schools always fail to produce … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Cracks Down on Earthworm Electrocutions

Posted on 04/29/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Letters section of Science magazine on April 21, 2023 published five Chinese scientists reported that China had banned electric capture of earthworms and called for legislation to penalizes electric earthworm capture. Chinese scientists often make policy recommendations to the … Continue reading →

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2018 Foundations of the DARPA Model’s Effectiveness: Lessons for China’s Military S&T II

Posted on 12/01/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This second in a series of what might be called “love letters to DARPA” written by Chinese scholars looking for lessons that can be used to argue for reform in the Chinese science and technology system and in particular the … Continue reading →

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2020: Chinese on US vs. PRC Economy, Science, Education, Outlook for Bilateral Relations

Posted on 07/14/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Today I came across this set of three articles comparing the US and China in various dimensions and considering the outlook for bilateral relations. These three articles are translated below. I did a quick translation using DeepL and then reviewed … Continue reading →

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2021 Yan Xuetong: Development of the Discipline of International Relations in China

Posted on 01/12/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Yan’s article seems to look for inspiration from the history of the development of the hard sciences for the development of “soft sciences” such as International Relations. During the first three decades of the PRC, the social sciences were … Continue reading →

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2021: “History and Experience of the Chinese Communist Party’s Engagement with the United States”: A Lecture by Professor Zhang Baijia

Posted on 04/24/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Professor Zhang Baijia, diplomatic historian and deputy director of the Chinese Communist Party’s institute for the study of Party history, led off a series of lectures on China and the world aimed at the future Chinese diplomats coming out of … Continue reading →

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2006: The Chinese on Chinese Science – Four Books

Posted on 02/01/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Influence of Chinese Science [Zhongguo Kexue de Yingxiangli], edited by SunChengquan, Xiao Xiantao. Kexue Chubanshe, Beijing, April 2005. ISBN 7-03-015100-3The Influence of Chinese Science is a 380-page study by the Chinese Academy ofScience based primarily on the Science Citation … Continue reading →

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Plagues Then and Now: That Song Dynasty Plague Sounds Familiar!

Posted on 08/17/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Does History Repeat itself? Maybe we can learn from past epidemics. Or maybe we can’t depending on how foolish we are. Thinking in broad terms — in the old days people thought demons played a big part in plague, today … Continue reading →

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