11-2-09 I am curious about Publocc not being available in the PRC. I have a friend in Beijing who has told me the same thing but when I get on Baidu and type in "Public Occurrences" up it comes. How is that possible, if you know?-Ben As for the...

Hi, Ben: I couldn't have access to your website in China and some other what online police considers sensitive sites like cnd.org. -YYY, a Chinese-American friend. (November 1, 2009)

In a country as centralized as any in the world with a longer history of centralization than any other, understanding Beijing, the center of the center, can go a long way to understanding the country. But in everything I've read, Anhui comes up again...

Ms. Jie Li has sent the following email in response to the October 3 post here. Hello Mr. Harris, Thank you for coming to the presentation, but you have misquoted me. First, my name is Jie Li and not Jie Lie, and Li is my last name. Secondly, I...

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