Current Condition of China’s Working Class
China’s working class has played an essential role in the economic development and social advancement that have taken place since the reforms initiated in 1978. Workers now are responsible for the...
View ArticleWill Hu Jintao Declare A National Holiday to Honor Mao Zedong?
15 Chinese websites have jointly launched a petition campaign by issuing a statement of “initiative”, on December 6, 2003, endorsed by 1100 signatories, to call upon the National People’s congress to...
View ArticleObituary: William H. Hinton (1919–2004)
Obituary: William H. Hinton (1919–2004) uploaded on: 30 oct 04 by Daniel F. Vukovich William Hinton, known as “Han Ding” to the people of China whom he loved and served for decades, died on May 15th...
View ArticleTo be Attacked by the Enemy is a Good Thing
I have always considered the words of Mao Zedong, “To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing” to be among his most valuable. Not only did it alter my conception of struggle, but...
View ArticleReforms that Make a Few Rich: China and the Path to Economic Globalization
EDITOR”S NOTE: “Good introduction to China’s reform process, emerging or worsening environmental and social problems, and various attempts to deal with these, including only currently available English...
View ArticleWe Have Been Here Before: The Cultural Revolution in Historic Perspective in...
On May 27, 1871, what Marx called the “final mass murder” of the supporters of the Paris Commune was carried out at a wall of the Pere Lachaise cemetery there. A plaque still marks the place of their...
View ArticleConditions of the Working Classes in China
Every class and sub-class stratum in China is undergoing dramatic changes that will have a profound impact on their own role, the relations between them, and the future course of the society. These...
View ArticleCity of Youth
Since ancient times, there are those who have dreamed of finding a City of Youth, where the population never ages, and any outsider who comes to live will remain forever young. They probably did not...
View ArticleWere Revolutions in China Necessary?
Reflections on (1) Through a Glass Darkly: U.S. Views of the Chinese Revolution by William Hinton, and (2) Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals. This is a longer draft...
View ArticleLooming social crises: China at a cross road
Introduction China has since 1992 sustained a dizzying growth rate, hovering above or near 8%, a performance all the more impressive, when viewed against the troubled world economy in the second half...
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