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Danwei Picks: Lei Feng!Posted by Joel Martinsen, March 5, 2008 5:41 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). ![]() 45 Years of Lei Feng: Jeremiah at the Granite Studio is not a believer: Anyway, in case you missed it, Lei Feng was a young soldier in the PLA whose selfless devotion to his brother troops, to the people, and especially to Mao Zedong and his country made him a role model for young Chinese. If you want to think of him as a cross between a boy scout, GI Joe, and "Opie" from the old Andy Griffith Show, go ahead I won’t stop you. Also: previous stories about Lei Feng on Danwei.
Violent protests erupted in several southern Chinese fishing towns after residents heard that a chemical factory rejected as environmentally dangerous by the nearby city of Xiamen would be built in their area instead, witnesses and other residents said Monday.
China to launch revamp with merged ministries
Since the summer of 1989, when certain leaders of the Central Publicity Department went after certain units, they never issue official documents. They only make a notice by telephone. When you ask him who he is, he never says so. He gives the impression of stealthiness (maybe he is afraid, but what is he afraid of?). Usually, he only says that he is from a certain department within the Central Publicity Department.
Despite the global interest in the rise of China, no one is paying much attention to its ideas and who produces them. Yet China has a surprisingly lively intellectual class whose ideas may prove a serious challenge to western liberal hegemony An excerpt: Chinese thinkers argue that all developed democracies are facing a political crisis: turnout in elections is falling, faith in political leaders has declined, parties are losing members and populism is on the rise. They study the ways that western leaders are going over the heads of political parties and pioneering new techniques to reach the people such as referendums, opinion surveys or 'citizens' juries.' The west still has multi-party elections as a central part of the political process, but has supplemented them with new types of deliberation. China, according to the new political thinkers, will do things the other way around: using elections in the margins but making public consultations, expert meetings and surveys a central part of decision-making. |
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Comments on Danwei Picks: Lei Feng!
对待同志象春风般的温暖. 雷峰同志万岁!
These ne'er-do-wells need to respect authority and stop protesting. The government can do no wrong. Don't question authority! Get a lobotomy!
Obviously. To be happy, don't think, to be rich, work hard. Yu Hua found this statement sufficiently trite that he stuck it in one of his short stories.
I'm surprised the Prospect Magazine article is not seeing more discussion, on the other hand.
The Chinese-thinkers article was promising, but I think that the critical comments (ignore the fawning praise from the "I know nothing first-hand" comments) at the Propect's blog do it justice: link
In what way? The article claims to be an overview of the Chinese policy scene, and it does a decent job of that, leaving the value judgements to the reader. Most of the complainers are of the type that won't be happy unless China's name is changed to China (Free Tibet! And East Turkestan! And Stop Threatening Taiwan!) and the name of its inhabitants is changed to Chinaman (practices female infanticide! is responsible for Darfur!)