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  • Beijing spring Jan. 2007, Issue 164
     

    Brief of No.164:

    The January 2007 issue of Beijing Spring (Issue 164) was published in mid December 2006. We used a great volume to review the civil right protection movement of the past year.The article of our publishing office pointed out that the surging civil right protection movement in China of year 2006 shows the new awakening of the Chinese citizens. Actually, the civil right protection activities of China were born with the one party tyranny of the CCP starting from 1949. .......

    Table of Contents
    Words from Editor in Chief
    03. / Hu Ping ...... How to evaluate the opinions on "Rise of the powers"

    Words from the President
    04. / Wang Dan ...... Hu Jintao after December 1st

    Cover Topic: Surging of the civil right protect movement of China
    06. / Editorial Office ...... The true awakening of the Chinese citizens
    07. / Guo Yongfeng (Shenzhen) ...... Right protection and enlightenment
    13. / Mu Chuanheng (Shandong) ...... The "win-win" strategy of law enforcement and right protection
    17. / Tianli (Guangdong) ...... Using right protection to fight against the society ruled by individuals
    19. / Chen Xi (Guizhou) ...... Discussion about publicity
    23. / Lu Gengsong (Shandong) ...... Thoughts about pro-democracy movement and right-protection
    27. / He Weihua (Hunan) ...... The struggle of students is the prelude of the revolution of education

    Chinese Political Situation
    31. / Wu Siyu (Thailand) ...... To control poverty by poverty is the ruling trick of the CCP
    34. / Yu Jie (Beijing) ...... The crisis of universities and the defects in humanistic education
    39. / Fan Baihua (Jiangsu) ...... Ambiguous "Rise of the powers"

    Divine Land of China
    45. / Hu Ping ...... The blog of Changsha ruffian Chen Hong
    49. / Nahan ...... The real cause of the poverty of the Chinese countrymen

    Discussion Group of Culture
    55. / Yu Yingshi ...... My probe into the Chinese Culture and history
    57. / Chunren ...... Congratulations to Professor Yu Yingshi for the Kluge Prize
    59. / Yang Chuanzhen, Jiang Ni ...... The literature and art summit of Taiwan and Mainland China

    Historical Witness
    70. / Chen Ziming (Beijing) ...... The political opinions in the campaign movement in 1980
    79. / Fu Guoyong (Zhejiang) ...... Sun Yat-Sen "did not forget reading in the revolution"
    84. / Zheng Yi ...... Commemoration for the first anniversary of the death of Liu banyan

    Wall of Democracy
    86. / Chen Pokong ...... Commonsense about China (5)
    89. / Gong Shengli (Guangzhou) ...... Commemoration for the 140th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-Sen
    91. / Chen Weijian (New Zealand) ...... Some thoughts about the 10th anniversary of the foundation of News Times

    Reading
    93. / Shu Chong ...... Review of the new book of Liu Xiaobo "Single bladed toxic sword"
    95. / Jiang Ni (Beijing) ...... Talking from "Counting heads is better than chopping heads"

    Garden of Literature & Art
    97. / Yu Dongyue (Hunan) ...... Still - my pronouncement
    97. / Yu Zhijian (Hunan) ...... The redundant monologue
    97. / Huang Heqing (Spain) ...... Congratulations to Professor Yu Yingshi for the Kluge Prize

    Brief News
    99. / Reporter of our magazine ...... Tokyo Forum - "Democratization of China and security of East Asia"
    102. / Brief News

    Readers, writers and editors
    106. / Selected letters from readers

     


    Members of Beijing Spring's Advisory Board

    Fang Lizhi, professor of physics at University of Arizona. As the former vice president of Chinese University of Science and Technology, he inspired the 1989's Chinese Democracy movement and then was forced to seek refuge in the American Embassy for about a year after the June 4 crackdown.

    Guo Luoji, a leading liberal theoretician who was driven out of Beijing by Former Chairman Deng Xiaoping because of his political opinion. In 1992, he sued the Chinese government for human rights abuses in a Federal Court of law. Now he is a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

    Smarlo Ma Smarlo Ma is pen name of Mr. Yi Ma. Joining the CommunistParty of China in 1937, he became Director of the Library of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political College in Yan-an in 1938. He formally left the Party in 1943. as a well known expert on the history of the Communist party of china, he has often been invited to present papers in international conferences of Asian specialists. He has published mora than 20 books.

    Perry Link, professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature and is very concerned with human rights condition in Mainland China.

    Liu Qing, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Human Rights in China. As a democracy promoter and a close ally of Wei Jingsheng, he had been jailed by Chinese government for almost ten years.

    Andrew Nathan, professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Institute at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. He has published numerous books and articles on China's politics.

    Situ Hua, president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movement in China. Mr. Situ is a member of the Hong Kong legislature and an important leader of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong.

    Su Shaozhi, chairman of Princeton China Initiative. Once served as the director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, he is a leading liberal political theoretician in China.

    Su Xiaokang, a Chinese writer well known for his epic The River's Elegy, a critical television program about China's political and cultural evolution. As an active participator in the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China. Now he is a fellow of the Princeton China Initiative and publisher of the bi-monthly journal "The Democratic China".

    Yang Liyu, professor of East Asian Studies at Seton Hall University

    Yu Ying-shi, professor of history at Princeton University. Mr. Yu has been a leading critic on the tyranny of the Chinese communists after he left China in 1950. After the Chinese government crackdown on the Democracy Movement in 1989, he devoted himself into helping the fled Chinese activists to settle down in the U.S and setting up the Princeton China Initiative.


    Members of Beijing Spring's Editorial Board

    Yu Dahai, Publisher of Beijing Spring and assistant professor of economics at Tufts University. Graduated from Beijing University and received a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, he served as Chief Editor of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996 and then as President from June 1996 to September 2002. He is founding president of the Chinese Economists Society and former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Wang Dan, President of Beijing Spring since September 2002. As a student leader from Beijing University in the 1989's Democracy Movement, he was on the most wanted list of the Chinese government after the June 4 crackdown. After being imprisoned for political reasons from July 1989 to February 1993 and again from May 1995 to April 1998, he came to the United States ad is now a doctoral student in Harvard University.

    Hu Ping, Chief Editor of Beijing Spring since 1996 and a regular commentator for Radio Free Asia. Received a Master's degree in philosophy from Beijing University and studied at Harvard University, he was once the Chief Writer of Beijing Spring from June 1993 to June 1996. He is former president of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine.

    Chen Kuide, fellow of Princeton China Initiative and program host for Radio Free Asia. As once the Chief Editor of Shanghai's Thinker magazine, he actively took part in the 1989 democracy movement. He later received a Ph.D. degree in philosophy from Fudan University.

    Zheng Yi, member of the Princeton China initiative and a famous political critic. He once wrote articles to expose the cannibalism in Guangxi during the Great Cultural Revolution in China. As an important leader of the 1989 democracy movement, he was forced to leave China in 1992.

    Xue Wei, Manager of Beijing Spring since 1993. He was imprisoned in Sichuan for ten years for "counter-revolutionary activities" in the 1970's. He was among the founding members of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy and the China Spring magazine and has always served as a leader in promoting Chinese Democracy Movement dating back 1982.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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