China Policy Institute Blog
June 4: Memories, Myths, and Memorials
June 3, 2013
Written by Jackie Sheehan. It was 24 years ago today that 130,000 troops from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered central Beijing to end the occupation of Tiananmen Square which had begun in mid-May. From late in the evening of June 3, to get to the remaining student and worker activists and sympathisers still in …
Linking Diaspora Chinese Studies with Contemporary Chinese Studies
May 22, 2013
Written by Bin WU. A review of The Conceptualization and Practice of Transnational Asia: China Model, Ethnic Network and International Relationship (“跨界亚洲的理论与实践—中国模式，华人网络，国际关系”，刘宏著，南京大学出版社2013 ) The on-going processes of China’s rise and transition are perhaps one of “big events” in the world history, offering opportunities and challenges for academics to understand, reflect and interpret. In relation with …
Chinese civil society doing the party’s work?
May 7, 2013
Written by Andreas Fulda. As foreign aid is phased out in China, new funding challenges are cropping up The face of China’s civil society has undergone a dramatic makeover in recent years, none more so than in the way its organizations are funded. Less than 20 years ago, China’s voluntary sector was wholly reliant on overseas …
How the west can engage China’s new generation of reformers
April 23, 2013
Written by Andreas Fulda. Neither pro-establishment intellectuals nor anti-establishment protesters possess sufficient clout to convince party cadres that democratic reform in China is a necessity, leaving the West unsure whom to support. Yet a growing if disparate group of “trans-establishment” reformers, successfully navigating the delicate balancing act between party-state ties and sympathy for civil society, …
New pathways for democratic change in China
January 30, 2013
Andreas Fulda says a group of prominent Chinese who work within the system to advance democratic change have, remarkably, carved out a role denied their more liberal compatriots. Chinese author Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, came under fire late last year for choosing not to condemn the principles of censorship, comparing …
Integration of Chinese international students with the local community: Issues arising from the SCCS community building forum
January 28, 2013
By Feng Gao. As an international student from China who has stayed in Great Britain for many years, I have substantial experience in either observation or personal involvement regarding the integration of local Chinese into the mainstream society. The increasing number of Chinese internationals students brings a question of how could they integrate with the …
Decline of Primary Schools in Rural China: Causes and Consequences
December 3, 2012
By Wenjin Long. “Half of rural primary schools have disappeared between 2000 and 2010 and such a trend is still an ongoing process”, says Twenty-first Century Education Research Institution [resource link here], a NGO based in Beijing. The rapid decline of primary schools in rural China draws our attention to the reasons behind the decline …
Yu Jianrong’s ten year plan: A watered down version of the Charter 08?
November 22, 2012
By Andreas Fulda. In intellectual and political circles within China there is no shortage of complaints about the directionless and trapped nature of China’s political transition process. The recently concluded Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 18th Party Congress with its retrograde language and lack of a coherent vision of China’s political future is a case in …
Winter comes early for China’s street children
November 20, 2012
by Jackie Sheehan. A sanitation worker in Bijie, Guizhou Province, opened a dumpster last Friday morning to an appalling discovery: the bodies of five boys, all street children aged about ten years old, who had taken shelter in it from the night cold and died from carbon monoxide poisoning after burning charcoal for warmth in …
New Chinese Leaders Should Burn Their Three Fires (1)
November 13, 2012
by Shujie Yao. “The traditional Chinese metaphor, which implies that new leaders must tend to three big things, or burn three fires, refers to the effort by new leaders to win the heart of the people and to distinguish themselves from their predecessors. The three fires for the new leaders emerging at the Party Congress …
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