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federico wrote a new blog post: An Unlikely Lesson In Patriotism 10 months, 3 weeks ago
After Tian’anmen, the Chinese government decided it was time the country’s disillusioned youth learned a lesson in allegiance to the Communist Party. To appreciate the Party’s historical mission, special attention was given to ‘patriotic education’, which teaches how the CCP rescued China from a century of weakness and foreign aggression. The most…[Read more] -
federico commented on the blog post Statue? What statue? 1 year ago
Believe it or not, I did think of including a joke and/or pun somewhere, but I must have lost my mojo. To be honest, if this is the clampdown, I must have missed the loosening up. I’m trying to go to the foreign correspondents club in a few days to learn more about it, although [...]
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federico wrote a new blog post: Statue? What statue? 1 year ago
A few months ago I wrote a post on an event I found truly remarkable: a statue of Confucius erected next to Tian’anmen Square! It doesn’t get any more controversial than this. Sure enough, Confucius has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent years, as the Chinese leadership looks for ways to promote social stability in the [...] -
federico wrote a new blog post: Double citizenship in China? 1 year, 1 month ago
I recently read a very interesting article on the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo, a respected liberally-minded newspaper from Guangzhou, China). At the latest yearly parliamentary sessions in Beijing last March, a delegate to the Political Consultative Conference (a multi-party organism with fewer powers than the People’s Congress) proposed…[Read more]
