Category: China and Neighbourhood

Written by ANTONY OU Sunday, 03 April 2011 16:00 On 4th May 1919, over 3000 students of Peking University and other colleges demonstrated at Tiananmen. They condemned their current government for...

By Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon [1] | 25 February 2011     The central argument of this work is that “democratic constitutional legitimacy”[2] probably does not currently exist in the politics of any...

Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Wednesday, 09 February 2011 09:49 The intention of this work is to explain theoretically that democracy logically exists in China, despite the statements to the...

By Antony Ou | 31 January 2011 In late January this year, I was suffocated by the fact that China and Hong Kong were flooded by the news and images of the...

By Nicholas J.S. Miller | 28 January 2011   Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout the 19th century coinciding with the end of the...

Written by OSCAR J. BARBOSA Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:34 1. Introduction Labor relations in the People’s Republic of China has been determined by the government since the Communist Party...

By Antony Ou | 31 December 2010 Since the beginning of the 20th century, Confucianism has been fundamentally challenged. The crucial concepts like filial piety, imperial loyalty and social harmony were...

Written by ANTONY OU Thursday, 09 December 2010 10:35 Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese public intellectual, has drafted the Charter 08. It is a manifesto co-signed by other 350 human rights...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 24 November 2010   The most recent 'skirmish' or 'incident' in the continuing 'cease-fire' between the northern and southern parts of Korea raises the broader question...

By Dr. John W. Maerhofer | 01 October2010   The last year has witnessed the rise of a wide-spread racist group that has coordinated attacks on “foreigners” in Japan.  As reported in...

By Antony Ou | 24 September 2010   Fei Mu, who is now regarded as one of the all-time-favourite directors of China, filmed Confucius in 1940 during the time of the...

Tuesday, 07 September 2010 11:40 By Fadil Aliriza According to the International Energy Agency, China has outpaced the United States and become the world's largest energy consumer. The country's robust...

Written by PROF. SCOTT LUCAS Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:44 China Clears Inter-city Rail Projects: The National Development and Reform Commission on Friday approved inter-city rail transit networks covering more...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 20 May 2010 During the Bush years, authors such as Jeremy Scahill and Tom Englehardt documented how the US Department of Defense turned to private companies for...

By Ahmed Rashid | 20 May 2010   The Pakistani media is in a state of apoplexy about the would-be Times Square bomber, the Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad. Predictably a great...