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China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology

August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in some kind of leadership position. He spent four months as in the Party School, attending [...]

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Old man kicks Chen Shuibian in the ass, Chinese people rejoice

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, I was about to write “old” until I realized that my parents are about the same age. Shu Anquan, 64, waited outside the Taipei courthouse where former
Taiwanese prez Chen Shuibian took the stand as the defendant. Shu comes from a group called 中华爱国同心会, which means that he’s more or less
pro-China, or at least pro-Chinese. [...]

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Long Yongtu’s comments get pwned on the internet

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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Long Yongtu, former official, got a lot of flack for making remarks
at a recent conference saying that the government ought to take a
harder stance towards so called “diao min”, meaning troublesome people.
Most of the essays that we
read seem to take that position with regards
troublemakers like the nail-house couple in Chongqing, [...]

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Sichuan officials punished for earthquake relief related issues

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just saw this on Sina. In the city of Ya’An in Sichuan has “fired” three township level party
secretaries and given serious warnings to several other cadres. This was over irregularities
in how the relief efforts were coordinated and handled; for example, how things were
distributed, the speed and efficiency with the work was done, etc. The article [...]

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Anhui “white house” official linked with mysterious death is suspended from job

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

See that building above? That’s what people in the Yingquan district of Fuyang City in Anhui
province sarcastically call the “white house” and is the building wher ethe local government
does its work. The local party secretary is named Zhang Zhi’an and was one of the people
responsible for the construction of this building. Earlier this year, in [...]

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Southern Weekend interview with Sichuan education official Lin Qiang

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and coverage of events.
Lin Qiang had been chosen to be a torch-bearer and was also invited [...]

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