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  • Beijing spring Sep 2007, Issue 172
     

    Brief of No.172:

    August 1st of this year marked the eighty-year anniversary of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). In consideration of the importance of military problems in the progress of democratization for China, Beijing Spring had invited some overseas as well as domestic authors to compose related articles, and concentratively issued in the column of "Front Page Headline: Eight-Year Anniversary of Chinese People's Liberation Army".Among them, there were "The Problem of Military in the Progress of Democratization" written by Wu Zhenrong, a pro-democracy activist sojourning in South Korean, and a former military officer of PLA;.......

    Table of Contents
    From the Chief Editor
    03. "Chinese Miracle" and Social Injustice / Hu Ping

    From the President
    04. Who Is Making Fake News / Wang Dan

    Front Page Headline: Eighty-Year Anniversary of Chinese People's Liberation Army
    06. The Problem of Military in the Progress of Democratization / Wu Zhenrong (South Korea)
    11. Military Nationalization and Politics Democratization / Lu Honglai (Beijing)
    13. The Inspection of CPC's Military Capability / Lu Gengsong (Shandong)
    22. China Should Establish a Mechanism for Insuring Retired Military Personnel / Wang Jun

    Political Situations in China
    25. The 'Pan Yue' Phenomenon in Chinese Politics / Fan Baihua (Jiangsu)
    29. Educational Reform is the Reform of Education System / Wu Gaoxing (Zhejiang)
    32. Finances is a Constitutional Problem / Qiao Xinsheng (Wuhan)

    About China
    34. Obituary of the Authority Bearer and Political Judgment / Zan Aizong (Zhejiang)
    36. The Lawyer's Pleading Notes in the Case of 'Li Yuan Long' (Continued) / Li Jianqiang (Shandong)
    46. Rectify the Slogans of China / Xin Sheng (Hubei)
    47. Beijing Olympic: Humane or Bloody / Gong Yue

    The Fifty-Year Anniversary of Anti-Right Movement
    49. Xu Zhangben at the Exiled Handan / Yan Chang (Beijing)
    55. Tracing the Rightists' Situation (6) / Zhou Suzi (New Zealand)

    Quest for Theory
    59. The Tongue Twister about Social Democracy / Liu Guokai
    63. Luxemburg and Social Democracy / Liu Zili (Beijing)
    68. China's Literature Map in the Chaos Age / Zhou Bingxin (Beijing)

    Exclusive Interview
    74. The Ensign of Free Intellectuals in China - Lin Xiling / Ya Yi

    Historical Testimony
    82. The Intellectual Clique Who Are Striving for Constitutional Democracy / Gao Yu (Beijing)
    89. The Self-Pleading Diction of Guo Feixiong (Yang Maodong) on Court

    The Wall of Democracy
    93. Eliminate Political Fear in China / Yang Kuanxing (Shandong)
    96. The Sorrow of Chen Xingbi / Zhang Yaojie (Beijing)
    98. General Knowledge about China (12) / Chen Pokong

    Readings
    100. Endless 'Cultural Revolution' / Shu Chong

    Literatures:
    101. Reflection on Traveling to Europe / Zhang Chengjue (Hong Kong)

    Brief Messages
    102. The Open Letter to Hu Jintao from Fu Xiang, Wife of Yang Jian Li
    103. Brief Messages

    Readers, Writers, and Editors
    106. Letters Received
    106. Notice of Thanks

     


    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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