Tag Archives: socialism

Taxpayers are not ATMs

Posted on 2012-08-25 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest presents three articles exploring questions of social justice from three different perspectives … Continue reading →

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Zhang Lijia: Socialism is Great!

Posted on 2008-09-08 by Danwei

Zhang Lijia is an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing.

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Long Hair Drama, by Zhang Lijia

Posted on 2008-07-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

An except from Zhang Lijia’s book ‘Socialism is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China’.

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The end of work for all in 1981

Posted on 2008-04-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

I salute you, now get a job Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he’s been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that … Continue reading →

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-27

Posted on 2007-12-27 by Joel Martinsen

The BBC on pay-per-view football’s failure in China, Socialist Party of Australia on China’s gangster capitalism, and The Economic Observer on a river going dry.

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