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China’s Communist Party

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

Xi’s plan to glorify China’s deep cultural roots is embodied in Ruzang, a compilation of the philosopher’s writings and related works.

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China economy

Opinion | How can China’s reforms succeed when officials act like overbearing parents?

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Art

Artist Huang Yongyu showed his ‘relaxed’ side in new docu-film by Yonfan

China society

Opinion | China’s classroom culture of complaint is toxic – and not just for teachers

Educators are wary of what they say to students, fearful that it could cost them their job.

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Teachers are growing wary of what they say in the classroom as complaints from parents and students mount. Photo: Xinhua
China society

Opinion | How Chinese with disabilities are inspiring a more inclusive country

China must enforce its disability rights laws and improve accessibility, but social attitudes also need to shift beyond discrimination and pity.

Human rights in China

Chinese artist held under law that bans defaming revolutionary ‘heroes’

Artist and his brother Gao Qiang are well-known for their critical depictions of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

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China society

Editorial | A modern, powerful China the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, born 120 years ago

Paramount leader launched country on reform path that transformed nation from among the world’s least developed to a global force.

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A bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping in Lianhuashan Park in Shenzhen. Deng championed reforms with a dogged pragmatism and a willingness to be flexible that amazed many, including in the West. Photo: Shutterstock
China society

My Take | China’s censorship of cyberspace ID criticism risks losing a chance to improve

Chinese law requires new regulations to solicit public feedback, but legitimate concerns about giving netizens a single national ID are being silenced.

History

Who built the first bridge over the Yangtze River?

Slave, soldier, tycoon … the true story of Jiang Zonghan, the Chinese general who took the fall for killing a British explorer, before building a mysterious bridge over Eurasia’s longest river

China’s Communist Party

Open Questions | Chinese legal scholar He Weifang makes his case for history and the rule of law

The retired academic speaks out about his country’s legal system, political reform, private enterprise protection, nationalism and why 2008 was China’s ‘first year’.

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Books and literature

Grandma, mother, daughter: an emotional story from China to US

Memories of three generations of women from Communist China, Hong Kong and California and the traumas they carried with them are at the heart of Feeding Ghosts, Tessa Hulls’ debut graphic novel.

Image of author Tessa Hulls. Hulls, now 39, wrote her first graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, published by Macmillan US this March. It’s raw, intense and honest, drawing and writing out stories of intergenerational trauma from 1920s China, to 1950s Hong Kong, to present-day USA that gave Hulls a much more nuanced understanding of not only her grandmother and mother, but also herself. Photo: Tessa Hulls
Lessons from China's history

Reflections | 3 Body Problem recalls one of Chinese history’s worst traitors

(Spoiler alert) A character in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem brings to mind a Chinese military leader who has been vilified as a traitor for nearly 400 years for allowing Manchu troops to overrun China.

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Hong Kong society

Obituary | Chan Kiu, veteran Hong Kong photojournalist for the Post, dies at 96

Veteran photojournalist had 40,000 rolls of film to his name, capturing major events such as the 1967 riots, Bruce Lee’s funeral and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to the city.

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TV shows and streaming video

3 Body Problem piracy in China shows some American shows can still break through

BitTorrent downloads topped 90,500 on the first day of release, far surpassing those of other popular Netflix series like Squid Game and Stranger Things.

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Netflix’s 3 Body Problem opens with a scene from the Cultural Revolution, something that was handled mostly through dialogue in the Tencent adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Photo: Netflix
China’s Communist Party

Obituary | Chinese scholar who helped lay legal foundation for market economy dies at 93

Jiang Ping was known as the ‘conscience’ of the profession and for his advocacy for the rule of law. He played a role in drafting key legislation including corporate, trust, contract and property laws.

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Jiang Ping told students in a speech that they should only “bow to the truth”. Photo: Handout
Crime in Hong Kong

Arrest of suspected murderer puts Hong Kong’s long crime wave back in spotlight

Arrest brings back memories of gunfights on the streets between police and armed gangs in 1980s-90s.

Women and gender

Opinion | China banning clothes that hurt national feelings would be a stitch too far

Proposal to criminalise clothes that hurt national feelings is a step too far. Concerns are already growing as young people wearing kimonos or T-shirts with rainbows are barred by security, even detained by police

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China economy

Opinion | Banning clothes to protect Chinese ‘feelings’ signals an intolerant society

The amendment would give police discretion to enforce a vague dress code, undoing progress in China that saw the state recede from people’s daily lives.

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A group of Chinese nationalists clad in traditional ‘Huafu’ costume celebrate the July 1st Hong Kong Handover anniversary outside in the Palace Museum in West Kowloon. Rising nationalism in China has spurred increasing interest in Han clothing styles amid rising intolerance for some other types of dress. Photo: SCMP / Xiaomei Chen
US-China relations

Opinion | Rest of the world may need to step in to pull US and China back from brink

The tensions between the US and China affect more than just the world’s two great powers, as everyone is a stakeholder in geopolitical rivalry. If better leadership is not forthcoming, the rest of the world will have to step up and stage a badly needed great power intervention.

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China economy

China Briefing | Xi’s Chinese dream in danger of being hijacked by ultra-left nationalism

The ultra-leftist revival threatens Xi’s plans to revive the economy and turn China into a dominant world power by 2049. It’s time to curb these ultra-nationalistic tendencies and return to pragmatic reform and development.

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China economy

Obituary | China’s ‘Mr Stock Market’ dead at 92, but his reform-minded influence endures

Li Yining mentored some of the Communist Party’s seniormost members, including Premier Li Keqiang, while his teachings continue to help guide China’s economic transformation.

Li Yining, pictured here in March 2016, was known as “Mr Stock Market” in China. Photo: Getty Images
Banking & finance

Mao’s former barefoot doctor recalls sole foreign takeover of Chinese bank

Shan Weijian was the co-managing partner of San Francisco-based private-equity firm Newbridge Capital when it took over a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank in 2005.

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The Shenzhen Development Bank deal was Shan’s last major involvement at Newbridge, before he set up PAG Asia Capital in Hong Kong in 2010. Photo: Edmond So
China economy

Opinion | What China can learn from Deng Xiaoping about building trust with entrepreneurs

Nian Guangjiu, known for his Idiot Melon Seeds, won tacit approval from China’s paramount leader in the 80s, holding lessons for China today as it seeks to restore trust with private business.

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China economy

China needs to trust the power of capital to reboot its economy

Deng Xiaoping’s embrace of economic liberalisation unleashed a boom in private entrepreneurship in China, but the confidence that entrepreneurs had in Beijing to protect their interests has somewhat weakened in the past decade.

China's economic recovery

China’s rural supply cooperatives need private firms, former official says

Amid worries that China is heading down another planned-economy path, Hu Deping weighs in with a pro-market perspective and warning that a government-controlled rural cooperative economy must be avoided.

Supply cooperatives play a vital role in the development of China’s rural areas. Photo: AFP
History

They swam to Hong Kong in waters that promised death to escape a worse fate

‘Freedom swimmers’ who made the treacherous journey from China to Hong Kong during the the Cultural Revolution, and police officers assigned to catch them, recall those dark days.

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Three illegal immigrants stare at their captors moments after a Marine Police patrol spotted them in Deep Bay, November 11, 1979. Their raft is made of inflatable plastic cushions swen together and covered with plastic bags. 11NOV79 SCMP/ C. Y. Yu
Coronavirus Hong Kong

Inside Out | Are we a lucky generation? History would tell us yes

Despite the struggles of the pandemic, we can count ourselves lucky to live in a period of relative stability, unlike those alive during the Cultural Revolution or world wars. The rising threat of war and hunger today is a fresh reminder that peace and prosperity should not be taken for granted.

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China-EU relations

As China-EU ties regress, Brussels’ envoy asks: are we back in the Mao era?

Nicolas Chapuis picks up on the phrase ‘evil spirits and ghosts’, used by Communist Party mouthpiece about challenges to China’s development.

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9 September, 2024
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