Tag / development
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为什么中国没有文化崛起？
China has already become the world’s second largest economy. But is culture also on the rise? Apparently not. A reflection on China’s past and present glory from a Singaporean scholar.
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以人文经济学开启新启蒙运动 – Humanistic economics opens a new enlightenment
A reflection on economics, defined as the science of human collaboration – including a praise of Adam Smith, and a warning against pure mathematical economics.
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中国经济的“破窗式”增长 – The broken windows of China’s economic growth
Re-visiting the French economic metaphor of the ‘broken window’, this piece reflects on the potential sterility of China’s contemporary growth.
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北京病，中国病 – Beijing disease is China’s disease
The Chinese people have always yearned for the capital, Beijing, which has now become a “problem city.” A reflection on urban issues in contemporary Beijing, tensions across levels of government, and the exceptional role played by the capital.
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村里那些老了的老人们 – These old people back home who ‘got old’
Every year, when he returns to his hometown for Chinese New Year, Li Tianqi enjoys exchanging gossip with groups of old men who sit under trees and walls, enjoying the sunlight. For him, these old men are an endless source of knowledge on everything in the village. But this year, new faces have replaced old familiar ones.
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中国为什么容易被妖魔化？ – Why is China demonized so easily?
Ran Yunfei resists easy nationalism: rather than clamouring against misreportings against China in Western and international media, he raises the question: if indeed China is being demonized, what have we done wrong, so that the West can demonize us so easily?
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城市改建：一场城市生与死的考验 – Urban redevelopment: A city’s life and death
From Kaifeng’s new proposal for a city centre renewal to the destruction of Beijing’s Hutong, this piece by sociologist Zhang Tianpan explores the many shapes of China’s current urban renewal boom
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南京古城墙观光电梯为谁而建 – Who is the Nanjing ancient city wall sightseeing elevator built for?
As part of the huge plans to develop a world-class “Central Park”, Nanjing intends to build a transparent sightseeing elevator along the Ming dynasty city wall. This piece explores the tension between tourism development and heritage preservation in contemporary China.
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从经济增长转向秩序建设 – From economic growth to ordered development
In 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC proposed that the work-emphasis turn from class struggle to economy-building. After more than thirty years of economic growth, the rapid-growth phase has come to an end, the national economy has moved up a very large notch, and now it is necessary to bring about another shift in the focus of the work, from economy-building to building the social order.
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朱自清的温州 – Zhu Ziqing’s Wenzhou
Looking for traces of poetry and tradition among China’s modernity, Xu Zhiyuan visits the bustling city of Wenzhou, remembering the life of its writer Zhu Ziqing.
