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In teaching Chinese-language courses to American students, which I have done about thirty times, perhaps the most anguishing question I get is “Professor Link, what is the Chinese word for ______?”

A week ago today I sat together with you outside the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s library, a teacher among other teachers, a university member beside students, 13,000 strong. The weeks before had felt quiet: at the three previous all-student meetings around the Goddess of Democracy statue, you listened respectfully to guest speakers—past student union presidents, a

“Wish Lanterns” follows the lives of six Chinese born between 1985 and 1990 as they grow up, go to school, and pursue their aspirations. Millennials are a transformational generation in China, heralding key societal and cultural shifts, and they are a hugely diverse group.

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To try to understand is not to condone or forgive. Quite the contrary. In this bicentennial year when a euphoria for democratic rights seemed to be sweeping the world, why was it stopped in Tiananmen Square? Why do China’s rulers attack their students like enemies when in our view they are the hope of the future? The answer lies farther back than Deng Xiaoping’s aversion to

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In reality, 2021 marks the centennial of a political party that ceased to exist nearly 90 years ago.

1570 Historian ON July 23, 1921, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai. Since then, the communists in China have metamorphosed many times, but always on the premise that China is destined to be a nation with a unique destiny and a unique purpose. One of those who were present at the time when the Communist Party was born was young Mao Zedong, a librarian at Beijing University. Like most other communist leaders, he was from a prosperous peasant family, had studied well and was upse...

Chinas Communist Party at 100: revolution forever The Conversation 02 Jul 2021, 04:42 GMT+10 This month the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It has come a long way from its secret beginnings in July 1921, when 12 delegates from a small number of study groups of ardent young Marxists gathered in Shanghai for their first national congress. These groups emerged from the anti-imperialist and nationalist protests of May 4 1919 that had merged with a larger social a...

Posted : 2021-05-20 12:38 Updated : 2021-05-20 12:38 People look at the photos they took next to a monument of the hammer and sickle in Nanniwan, the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party from 1936 to 1947, in Shaanxi province, May 11. AFP-Yonhap Chinas ruling Communist Party had only 50 members when it was founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. Both Chen and Li studied Marxism in Japan, and were among the Chinese intellectuals with communist ideas that were influential in the 191...