a shameful waste of madhouse time

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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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, 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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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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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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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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