Today reading Ran Yunfei s article 2006 Ran Yunfei on “Informing During the Cultural Revolution The Case of Wu Dachang” I learned that Hu Shih had told Taiwan historians that they should preserve the records of the February 28, 1947 massacres to Continue reading
Informing on friends, colleagues and even family members is common in China and among Chinese living in other countries. Today, worries about ideological contagion the so-called spiritual pollution from people disillusioned with the regime motives PRC party and Continue reading
The Leipzig Coffee Museum was one of the interesting spots I visited during my July 2026 two-week long visit to Germany. Most of my trip was in former East Germany (German Democratic Republic). Things have changed since I was a Continue reading
Working on a recent translation about Chinese Party takes on modernization 2026: Theory and Significance of China’s Unique Path to Modernization, I found the article very dense in numbered slogans/moral guidelines that are in turn umbrellas for many other slogans/moral guidelines. Continue reading
Modernization theory and its critics (dependency theory is its antimatter twin) emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. What is the best path for countries to modernize, how does their starting point, history, and power relations with the already modernized countries Continue reading
Jin Canrong (born December 26, 1962) is a Chinese scholar of international relations and an expert on the United States. His research has focused on American politics, U.S. foreign policy, China–U.S. relations, Chinese foreign policy, and relations among the major Continue reading
Carl Bildt s blog Alle Dessa Dager I sometimes mine for insights. This entry is especially interesting. Translated from Swedish. This from Carl Bildt blog Alla Dessa Dager at https://carlbildt.wordpress.com/ in Swedish [The title of the blog Alla Dessa Dagar All these Continue reading
Studying Zhuangzi with friends I have found Chinese books on Zhuangzi, translations into English, and responses to ChatGPT queries both narrative and search results it is important to check where things came from. Today I studied a passage from Continue reading
Le Monde on June 3 published an article about Chinese dissident Qi Hong who left a message for the authorities after he and his family had left the country in August 2025. The Le Monde article has a photo of Continue reading
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10506-7 Intriguing article behind Nature paywall. My experience is that a Chinese language search brings up many more Chinese language articles in a ChatGPT search than the same search in English so the bias towards the official state position is Continue reading