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Tuo Zhen
Tuo Zhen (; born 9 September 1959) is a Chinese official, serving the Chief Editor and President of the ''People's Daily'', an official newspaper of the CPC since April 2018. From July 2015 to March 2018 he as the deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. Tuo is the former provincial propaganda chief of Guangdong Province, during which he was widely known for his involvement in the 2013 ''Southern Weekly'' incident. He has also served as the vice-president of the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Biography Tuo Zhen was born in Fangcheng County, Henan province, in 1959. His family name is extremely rare. In 1978, Tuo Zhen was admitted to Wuhan University, majoring in political economics. After graduating from university in 1982, he was assigned to work as an editor for the ''Economic Daily''. In 2005, he was promoted to chief editor. In 2011, he was transferred to become vice president of Xinhua News Agency. In May 2012, Tuo Zhen was transferred to Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Daily
The ''People's Daily'' () is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The newspaper provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the CCP. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, the ''People's Daily'' is published in multiple languages. History The paper was established on 15 June 1948 and was published in Pingshan, Hebei, until its offices were moved to Beijing in March 1949. Ever since its founding, the ''People's Daily'' has been under direct control of the CCP's top leadership. Deng Tuo and Wu Lengxi served as editor-in-chief from 1948 to 1958 and 1958–1966, respectively, but the paper was in fact controlled by Mao Zedong's personal secretary Hu Qiaomu. During the Cultural Revolution, the ''People's Daily'' was one of the few sources of information from which either foreigners or Chinese could figure out what the Chinese government was doing or planning to do. During this period, an editorial in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Southern Weekly Incident
The 2013 ''Southern Weekly'' incident was a conflict which arose over government censorship of a "New Year's Greeting" published in the Chinese newspaper ''Southern Weekly''. Guangdong Province's Propaganda Department bypassed standard censorship protocols by changing the headline and content of the New Year's message without first informing ''Southern Weekly'' editors. In protest, newsroom staff posted online criticisms of the state of free expression in China and went on a four-day strike. The incident also sparked public demonstrations against press censorship which took place outside ''Southern Weekly's'' headquarters in Guangzhou, China. As a result of the incident and the accompanying demonstrations, keywords such as "''Southern Weekly''," "January 7 protest," and "open letter" have become sensitive topics blocked by the Chinese firewall. ''Southern Weekly'' background The ''Southern Weekly'' is a liberal-leaning paper founded in 1984 in Guangdong, Guangzhou. It is a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Baoshan
Li Baoshan (born on 13 August 1955) is a Chinese politician. He joined Chinese Communist Party in September 1978, and graduated from Shanxi Normal University. He was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and the member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. History Li was born in Shanxi Jincheng, in August 1955. Li Baoshan is the former CCP Shanxi Provincial Committee Deputy Minister of Propaganda Department and Director of the Provincial Government Information Office. He worked in CCP Central Propaganda Department in 1995 and served successively as deputy director of the Information Bureau, Director of the Arts and Culture Bureau, Director of the Information Bureau, and Deputy Secretary-General. In December 2003, he served as editor-in-chief of "Qiushi" magazine. In June 2008, he served as the president of Qiushi magazine. In April 2014, he served as People's Daily editor-in-chief. In April 2018, he served as Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leung Man-tao
Leung Man-tao (;, born 26 December 1970) is a Hong Kong writer, critic and host. Life Leung was born in a Catholic family in Hong Kong on December 26, 1970, with his ancestral home in Shunde, Guangdong. Leung was raised primarily in Taiwan, returning to Hong Kong only during high school.Leung graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he majored in philosophy at the Chung Chi College. In 1998, Leung hosted ''Teacup in a Storm'' in Metro Broadcast Corporation. In 1999, Leung joined the Phoenix Television and began attending ''Qiangqiang Sanrenxing (also referred to as Behind the Headlines with Wentao)'' hosted by Dou Wentao since that year. In 2008, Leung converted to Theravada Buddhism ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' .... Works * * * * References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Weifang
He Weifang (born July 17, 1960; ) is a former professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system, who has argued that the Chinese Communist Party is an unregistered and therefore an illegal organization in China. He earned a B.A. at Southwest University of Political Science & Law, and an LL.M at Peking College of Political Science and Law (former China University of Political Science and Law). He was an associate professor in China University of Political Science and Law from 1985 to 1995, then become a professor and Ph.D. adviser at Peking University. Since 1992, he has striven to reform the Chinese judicial system. He has written many papers on the importance of modernizing China's judicial system, earning him the nickname "Justice He". His works includes ''The Judicial Ideals and Institutions'' and ''The Ways to Carry Justice''. Because of his public support and signing for Liu Xiaobo's Charter 08, He Weifang's position a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Sizhi
Zhang Sizhi (; 12 November 1927 – 24 June 2022) was an active rights lawyer in China, and a professor at Central University of Finance and Economics. He was known as "The lawyer's conscience". Biography Zhang was born as the eldest of 10 children to Zhang Jingtang and Meng Yanrong on November 12, 1927 in Zhengzhou. His father was a doctor who practiced Chinese traditional medicine. In 1944, at the age of 16, he joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Three years later, he was admitted to Chaoyang university. After graduating from university, he became a judge. In 1950, he graduated from the People's University of China. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, he was divided into right, was sentenced to 15 years in a village. In 1972, he was free to act as a teacher. In July 1979, Zhang returned as a lawyer and participated in the trials of "Lin Biao Anti-Revolutionary Group Case" and "Jiang Qing Anti-Revolutionary Group Case", commonly known as the "Two Cases", serving as d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Chengpeng
Li Chengpeng () (born September 22, 1968) is a prominent writer and social critic in the People's Republic of China. Well known in China for his reportage and social commentary—Li's Sina Weibo blog had nearly six million followers — (it is offline now) Li made international headlines in 2011 when he announced that he would seek political office as an independent candidate in his hometown of Chengdu, Sichuan province. While not technically illegal, the decision represented a rare and bold move in a country where candidates for political office are typically appointed by the Communist Party of China.David Cohen and Peter Martin"Who is Li Chengpeng?" ''The Diplomat'', 9 June 2011. Career Li, nicknamed "Li Da Yan" ("big-eyed Li"), began his career as a journalist and first rose to prominence for covering on corruption within China's professional soccer establishment. Li later coauthored a book on the subject, ''Chinese Soccer: The Inside Story'', which documented allegations of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mao Yushi
Mao Yushi (; born 14 January 1929 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese economist. Mao graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1950 and was labeled a 'rightist' in 1958. In 1986, Mao was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and in 1990, Mao was a senior lecturer at Queensland University. Career He co-founded the Unirule Institute of Economics, which educated new and old generations of Chinese on the importance of private property, freedom of choice, voluntary exchange, rule of law, and other aspects of the free market economy, teaching how to transition away from central planning. On 4 May 2012, Mao Yushi was awarded the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty for his work in classical liberalism and free-market economics. In October 2014, Beijing began a "crackdown on dissent" by banning the publication of his works. In January 2017, they also shut down his Web site. Criticism of Mao Zedong Mao Yushi wrote an online column criticizing the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Weekly
''Southern Weekly'' (literally ''Southern Weekend;'' ), is a Chinese weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, and is a sister publication of the newspaper ''Nanfang Daily''. History and profile ''Southern Weekly'', founded in 1984, has its head office in Guangzhou, with news bureaus in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu. The paper is published by the Nanfang Daily group under the Guangdong Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is printed simultaneously in many Chinese cities, and distributed to the whole of the Chinese mainland. ''Southern Weekly'' currently operates upon 8 key sections: News, Defense, Current Political Situation, Economy, Environment, Culture, Supplement, and Comment, together with an editorial guideline of "Justice, Conscience, Love, Rationality". Circulation is more than 1.6 million copies, on average, which is said to be the biggest weekly circulation of any newspaper on the Chinese mainland. Thus it is considered to be one of the most influenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Party Standing Committee
Members of the standing committees of the Chinese Communist Party provincial-level committees, commonly referred to as ''Shengwei Changwei'' (), make up the top ranks of the provincial-level organizations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In theory, the Standing Committee of a Party Committee manage the day-to-day party affairs of a provincial party organization, and are selected from the members of the provincial-level Party Committee at large. In practice, ''Shengwei Changwei'' is a position with significant political power, and their appointments are essentially directed by the central leadership through the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Terminology * ''Shengwei Changwei'' () technically only refer to Standing Committee members of a province. Standing Committee members of the four direct-controlled municipalities are known as ''Shiwei Changwei'' (). Standing Committee members of the autonomous regions are known as ''Zizhiqu Dangwei Changwei'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic Daily
The ''Economic Daily'' () is a Chinese state-owned newspaper focusing on economic reports. Founded in Beijing on January 1, 1983, the newspaper is a deputy ministerial-level institution under the State Council. The newspaper is managed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. History In 1984, Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for the ''Economic Daily''. In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated the ''Economic Daily'' as a foreign mission of China. Hoax On January 28, 1993, ''Economic Daily'' published an article entitled ''Can Water Really Become Gasoline? —— A Record of Private Entrepreneur Wang Hongcheng and His Invention'' (水真能变成油吗?——记民营企业家王洪成与他的发明). The article, written by ''Economic Daily'' reporters Wu Hongbo (吴红博) and Liu Donghua (刘东华), praised the "invention" of Wang Hongcheng (王洪成) for transforming water into gasoline as "China's fifth greates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Economics
Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour markets and financial markets, as well as phenomena such as growth, distribution, inequality, and trade, and how these are shaped by institutions, laws, and government policy. Originating in the 16th century, it is the precursor to the modern discipline of economics. Political economy in its modern form is considered an interdisciplinary field, drawing on theory from both political science and modern economics. Political economy originated within 16th century western moral philosophy, with theoretical works exploring the administration of states' wealth; "political" signifying the Greek word ''polity'' and "economy" signifying the Greek word '; household management. The earliest works of political economy are usually attributed to the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
