China's socio-economic development

China's recent development is certainly one of the most intriguing puzzles of our times. If we can understand it, other countries can easily find their own way to prosperity. At least in theory...

China's Mao-Deng development model

The combination of Maoism centered on social progress followed by a very slow liberalization under Deng Xiaoping is an extremely efficient for both social and economic development.

Hong Kong – An extreme example of parasitic development

Most of Hong Kong's prosperity was achieved not by the efforts of the Hongkongers, but through parasitic exploitation of mainland China.

The Chinese community-based development model

Much of China's development has been achieved through a very flexible system of local governance where collective management plays an important role.

The evolution of infant mortality in China since 1950

The Chinese communist regime is the most efficient baby-life-saving machine ever. What?!? Somebody must have been brainwashed...

To what extent can a revaluation of the Chinese currency influence the US foreign trade deficit?

US trade deficit would decrease very little (~3%) in case of a substantial RMB revaluation, global effect on the US might even be negative.

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Zhang Weiwei on Al Jazeera: pushing Westerners to despise China

Because of a lack of research in the mechanisms of development, the talkshow was a disaster for the image of China abroad.

Europe and China – two opposed traumas

Europe and China have been traumatized by radically opposed events in the past: Europe by totalitarian dictatorships, China by a breakdown of the state and quite often sheer chaos during a whole century.

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Development in the Tibetan areas

Have Tibetans benefited from recent economic development?

Even though development was initially driven mainly by Han and Hui Chinese, Tibetans are more and more active in setting up businesses.

The educational system and development in Tibet

The Tibetan monasteries play an important role not only in economic development, but also in education. The complementarity between the public and monastic schools is certainly a major asset.

Writing Tibetan on computers and smart phones

Even though Tibetan keyboards are available on most (but not all) systems, the problem of computer literacy in Tibetan is far from being solved.

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Chinese society

Homosexualität in China

Nachdem Homosexualität in China lange ein Tabu war, kam in den letzten Jahren Bewegung in die Sache. Dieser Artikel erforscht die Einstellung der chinesischen Studenten zur Homosexualität.

China und seine Studenten

An analysis of the situation of the students in China.

On the rubble of old Chinese cities

For several years, the Western media have sharply criticized China for destroying traditional residential quarters. However, no media report ever cares about what ordinary Chinese think about this problem.