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National Day in China is not all about Chairman Mao and his comrades — This week, China celebrated its 59th birthday but for many in China, October 1st is just another day. I write about what National Day means to Chinese people in Sino News this week. Click here for [...]
Today is National Day in China. On this day, 59 years ago, Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China founded the People’s Republic of China with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. For most Chinese people, however, this day is not about Chairman Mao nor is it about the triumph of the Communist Party. Today [...]
A few months ago, I wrote an post entitled Why China is no Longer a Communist Country. In the article, I detailed how China’s development over the past 30 years has taken it away from its communist upbringing and transformed it into a socialist system. Today, while China is still ruled under a totalitarian form [...]
Most of my Chinese friends and students act as if I am claiming that men live on Mars when I tell them about the atrocities that are taking place in North Korea. For them, North Korea is their friendly Communist neighbor and the mere suggestion that people there are dying of starvation or that the regime is [...]
I saw Chairman Mao one time in Beijing. Or at least I thought it was Chairman Mao. I was only able to glance at him for five short seconds before a somber faced security guard prodded myself and hundreds of other people out of the Chairman Mao Mausoleum and back onto Tiananmen Square. Yes, Mao Zedong, the founder of [...]
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Forced abortions are still taking place in China according to some of my close friends here. A lady explains to me this week that having to pay fines for a child that has already been born is one thing;having the government find out that you are pregnant with [...]
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There was supposed to have been a huge protest at my local Carrefour on Thursday (Labor Day in China). Lots of people stood around all day waiting. The police and some soldiers were waiting in the back with their riot gear. Reporters waited with their cameras. People like me [...]
