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China Unrest Tied To Labor Program

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:24:00 +0000

Uighurs Sent to Work in Other Regions Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service July 15, 2009 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071403321.html) URUMQI, China -- When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region...

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Uighur mosques open, defying Chinese authorities

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Gillian Wong, William Foreman The Associated Press July 10, 2009 photo: Muslim worshipers overflow from a mosque out in to the street during noon prayers in Kashgar, China, Friday, July 10, 2009. URUMQI, China – Boisterous crowds turned up at mosques in riot-hit parts of this western Chinese...

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left round-up on june 4th

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0000

The China Study Group June 11 2009 Well, it’s June 11th, and as you can see, news stories on 6.4 started slowing down some time ago: chart of 6.4 number of news stories in English on google news Perfect time to do a round-up of left websites’ take on the 20th anniversary of 6.4! First, John Chan...

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Ghost of Marx haunts China's riots

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:20:00 +0000

Jian Junbo The Asian Times July 8, 2009 Jian Junbo (簡軍波) is assistant professor of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China (復旦大學國際問題研究院歐洲研究中心 ).SHANGHAI - The weekend violence that has left 156 people dead and more than 816 injured in Urumqi, capital of...

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Uighur oppression

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:27:00 +0000

Louis Proyect http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/uighur-oppression/ July 7, 2009 Uighur woman confronts Chinese cops My Turkish language professor at Columbia University once made an interesting observation. He said that variations on the Turkish language (Turkic) can be heard from...

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The myth of "Made in China"

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:19:00 +0000

Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei "Foreign Policy" Magazine June 10, 2009 Robert Koopman and Zhi Wang are chief economist and economist, respectively, at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Shang-Jin Wei is professor of finance and economics and international affairs at Columbia...

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Tibetan students protest in China

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:38:00 +0000

April 26, 2009 BEIJING (AFP) — Hundreds of students at a Tibetan school in China's northwest held a daring protest, demonstrating over education conditions, locals and an overseas Tibetan group said Saturday. The protest took place Friday morning among Tibetan students at the Xiahe middle school...

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Chinese Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:46:00 +0000

Sharon Lavaliere The New York Times April 11, 2009 BEIJING — A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating “an imminent generation of excess men,” a study released Friday said. For the next 20 years, China will have...

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Impacts of the Financial Crisis on Labour Conditions in China

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:57:00 +0000

Staphany Wong Werkstatt Ökonomie (www.woek.de ) Heidelberg 19 December 2008 Many academics have said in various occasions that China is not strongly affected by the financial crisis, or some even hold the optimistic view that China could use the financial crisisas an opportunity to expand its...

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Factory Closures Strain China's Labor Law

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:05:00 +0000

Sky Canaves The Wall Street Journal January 16, 2009 SHENZHEN, China -- The global economic downturn is testing China's efforts to improve labor laws, pitting the need to give basic legal protections to 700 million workers against the need to keep businesses afloat. The country's economic...

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A Gay-Pride Revolution in Hong Kong

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:08:00 +0000

Deena Guzder and Ann Binlot / Hong Kong NEWSWEEK Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 There were no drag queens in sexy ensembles with heavy makeup strutting down the streets in platform heels or buff shirtless sailor boys splayed like starfish on moving floats. But Hong Kong's first official gay-pride parade...

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Why China Is Too Scared to Spend

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0000

Boosting consumption is key to economic recovery. But that will take fixing a disastrous health system. Mary Hennock NEWSWEEK Dec 22, 2008 http://www.newsweek.com/id/174524 This month marks the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in China. But rather than celebrating, officials...

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Workers riot in south China over job losses: government

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:21:00 +0000

AFP November 26, 2008 GUANGDONG, China (AFP) — Hundreds of workers sacked from a toy factory in China clashed with police and smashed buildings, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest bout of violent unrest linked to rising unemployment. The riot occurred Tuesday in Guangdong province,...

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China's Agrarian Revolution - Beware of Radical Change

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0000

John A. Donaldson & Forrest Q. Zhang The Straits Times, Singapore Nov 24, 2008 http://www.straitstimes.com/Review/Others/STIStory_306007.html Both writers are assistant professors in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. They recently carried out extensive...

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Massive riot in northwestern China

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:19:00 +0000

John M. Glionna Los Angels Times November 18, 2008 Thousands, angered over a plan to raze a city center, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. Reporting from Beijing -- An angry crowd of 2,000 rioted in northwest...

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Realities of China today

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:10:00 +0000

Martin Hart-Landsberg Against the Current November/December 2008, No. 137 http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1940 Martin Hart-Landsberg is Professor of Economics and Director of the Political Economy Program at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon; and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute for...

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The Role of Trade Unions in China

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:02:00 +0000

Carl Finamore August 25, 2008 The recently-concluded summer Olympics introduced China as a major player on the world stage in spectacular fashion. No doubt about it, the country made a superbly dramatic entrance. Of course there were the much-publicized disclosures that some elements of the...

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A Turning Point for China’s Trade Unions

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:23:00 +0000

http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/100294 (The following unsigned article appears on the English section of the China Labour Bulletin 中國勞工通訊. We have by far failed to find a Chinese version of the article.) We may have reached a crucial turning point in...

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Democracy within the Communist Party is the New Answer

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:03:00 +0000

China: the middle kingdom's middle way Le Monde diplomatique August 2008 ___________________________________________________________ Despite the Olympic spotlight on China, we hear little of the Chinese Communist Party. To retain power and maintain stability, the party knows it must accommodate...

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列寧與市場經濟

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:20:00 +0000

不破哲三日共中央主席 2002 年8月27日，日共中央主席不破哲三應邀在我院做了以《列寧與市場經濟》為題的講演。講演共分9個部分:(1)列寧是共產主義者當中第一個向市場經濟與社會主義問題挑戰的人。(2)十月革命勝利之初列寧曾否定市場經濟。(3)「新經濟政策」是對改善與農民之間關係問題的探討與決策。(4)確立「通過市場經濟走向社會主義」的路線。(5)列寧去世後5年，上述路線中斷。(6)「通過市場經濟走向社會主義」這條道路至今無人走通。(7)「通過市場經濟走向社會主義」所需之條件。(8)市場經濟的前景。(9)「通過市場經濟走向社會主義」的道路具有世界性的普遍意義。 ...

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What kind of society is China?

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:04:00 +0000

--- The triumph of state capitalism Steve Freeman Weekly Worker, No.727 June 26 2008 http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/727/triumph.htm (Weekly Worker is a publication of the Communist Party of Great Britian. Steve Freeman analyses the facts and figures following his recent visit.) The world is...

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No Shangri-La

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:34:00 +0000

Slavoj Žižek Letter, London Review of Books Vol. 30 No. 8 · Cover date: 24 April 2008 The media imposes certain stories on us, and the one about Tibet goes like this. The People's Republic of China, which, back in 1949, illegally occupied Tibet, has for decades engaged in the rutal and systematic...

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CCTV: Protest West Media Distortion in Ottawa, Canada

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:06:00 +0000

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China protesters outnumbered

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:02:00 +0000

Chinese students quickly organize a counterprotest, call activists uninformed Peggy Lim Staff Writer, News & Observer peggy.lim@newsobserver.com DURHAM - While protesters were heckling the Olympic torch out of San Francisco, Duke University junior Adam Weiss was having a hard time bringing...

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Olympic Torch Relay Counter-Protest in London

noreply@blogger.com (China Series) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:58:00 +0000

Taimur Rahman On Sunday the 6th of April the Olympic Torch was being carried through the streets of London. For some time now the procession of this Torch had become a focal point for demonstrations. On the one hand were those who, egged on by the imperialist media wanted to see a boycott of the...

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