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George Sun

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Born in the 80s, I got my Master Degree in UK and am currently a journalist and columnist based in the capital of PR China. Besides my blogging, I write news comments for several Chinese websites and newspapers.

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2 March 2008

China

Nanjie Village, a small village in Henan Province and once the so-called ‘red billionaire village’ and ‘Republic of Chairman Mao’, is recently revealed by Chinese media that it is totally a phoney. Changping[zh] compares it with the fake tiger photo last year arguing that it indicates the bankruptcy of planned economic system and the extreme left ideology.

China

Wang Lili, a 52-year-old journalist working at Tongzhou Times for 4 years, got fired by his company merely because of a picture he shot and published in which the sheriff of Tongzhou is making a work report in People's Congress. According to bloggerQian Liexian[zh], the official statement about Wang's dismissal is: “His photo distorted the spirit of congress and made the speaker acting like pleading guilty, which generated a very bad political effect.” Wang Lili hitherto hasn't found his job.

29 February 2008

China

In a new published book entitled Lu Xun & Hu Shi: Two Chinese Intellectuals in the 20th Century the author made a thorough analysis about the mutual relation between the process of democratization and Chinese national virtue. This book and its theme raised a lot discussion online. Blogger bbcjy wrote[zh] on Feb 27, that democratization and national virtue can be the impetus of each other so the ‘inadequate national virtue' is not an excuse for not carrying out the political reform.

China

According to the latest Outlook Weekly, the Gini coefficient of China is growing up to 0.47, which is above the international warning line and much higher than that of most developing countries. It means the income gap between urban and rural residents is getting wider. Chenyuan26 [zh] thinks that the reason behind it is more about the shortcomings of current political system and social management in China.

28 February 2008

China: Thoughts and debates on the name-calling professor

The start was in fact very simple. In 2007, Professor Zhong Hua at Sichuan Normal University issued an article entitled Cultural Studies and the Lost of Literary Theory in the...

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