The falsification of the past deprives China of its potential for moving towards a more promising future. Why have Chinese been deprived of a true recollection of history? No enlightened country would allow its own people to be disgracefully ignorant of their own national history.The use of bogus […] Read the rest

On March 7, 2000, when a Swedish TV journalist interviewed me, the first question they asked was: why was China so eager to enter WTO? My answer at the time sounded rather diplomatic: “It’s not a one-sided request by China, but a desire by all parties, because we all have our own respective needs […] Read the rest

The Chinese government has virtually eliminated its citizens’ right to publicly assemble, protest or express any kind of political aspirations. Yet last weekend saw mass demonstrations in several major Chinese cities. These protests marked the climax to an anti-Japanese movement amon […] Read the rest

At a recent celebrity-studded Fortune Forum, where all the participants were either European business leaders or high-profile politicians, the vice-minister of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), Pan Yue, gave a talk on the Chinese environment that cast a shadow o […] Read the rest

He Qinglian
Translated by Paul Frank Since October, several popular riots in China have caught the world’s attention. These incidents indicate that China has entered a period of serious social conflict. The Hanyuan Incident: The people are deprived of their right to make a living while the […] Read the rest

By He Qinglian
*Modern China Studies
No. 2, 1999 (Volume 65) Since the beginning of broad ranging economic reform [in 1978], China’s economy has been growing at a pace that commands the world’s admiration. Entering the 1990s, however, the high-speed growth of the virtual economy has […] Read the rest

The international community is fully cognizant of the seriousness of government corruption in China. China remains one of the few countries that continue to employ strict control of media and the Internet, and the organization Transparency International has still not been able to obtain permis […] Read the rest

In an effort to fight underground criminal organizations, China’s Ministry of Public Security launched a ten-month long nationwide campaign at the end of 2000 using the operation code-names Fox Hunting, Raging Tide, Nill, Hurricane, and others. It is a known fact that a considerably large numbe […] Read the rest

By He, Qinglian*, Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago,
and Cheng, Xiaonong, Editor-in-Chief, Contemporary China Studies
Modern China Studies
No.3, 2001 China and India: Latecomers to the Road of Modernization He Qinglian: The human race experienced a number of social changes in the last c […] Read the rest

China remains one of the world’s most popular foreign investment destinations. Yet the evidence suggests that some of the commonly accepted assumptions of mutual benefit are false. During his address to the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing on May 18, Bo Xilai, the Chinese Minister of Commerce, cla […] Read the rest