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Michel Bonnin
35 articles in English
Far from Harmonious: The Chinese Authorities’ Handling of the 2008 Tibet Crisis
The Tibet crisis tainted the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The handling of the crisis showed the CCP’s rigid denial of genuine dialogue and compromise and adherence to a formula of repression and economic growth. Current leaders are enmeshed in this policy, but a new generation might well seek out policies more in tune with the quest for ”harmony” at home and ”peaceful rise” on the world scene.
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The Chinese Communist Party and June 4th: Or how to get out of it and get away with it
The spring 1989 democracy movement and the massacre of June 4th were a serious challenge to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. Twenty years on the Party appears to have successfully overcome it, but at the price of a return to the political fundamentals of a Leninist party-state and the use of nationalism as a replacement source of legitimacy. Despite all its efforts to conceal and deform the true history of the 1989 “disturbances” (as demonstrated in school and university text books), the party has not succeeded in ridding itself of this stain on its history. Questions about recognition of responsibility and a possible “reconciliation” continue to haunt it.
The Threatened History and Collective Memory of the Cutural Revolution's Lost Genaration
Since the Communist Party of China published its brief official version of the Cultural Revolution in 1981, few works on the history of that period have been approved for publication, even if they have kept strictly to the orthodox line. Still, some research work and eye-witness accounts by Chinese people outside the official apparatus have appeared, mostly in Hong Kong and Taiwan but also on the mainland. In spite of official attempts to bury the memory of that time, and against the grain of unreliable nostalgic recollections of some of their contemporaries, some former Red Guards and educated youth have managed, against all the odds, to put together an authentic and critically aware "people's" memory. These scattered islands of memory of China’s “lost generation"? are under constant threat of submersion, but they are worth our attention, not only because they are essential for the future of China but also because the Cultural Revolution was an event of global significance.
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Alain Le Pichon, Aux origines de Hong Kong—Aspects de la civilisation commerciale à Canton: le fonds de commerce de Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1827-1839
CP 32, Novembre - December 2000
Fifty Years of Storms and Disturbances
Soliloquy on National Day evening
Li Shenzhi • with an introduction by Michel Bonnin
CP 32, Novembre - December 2000
Geremie Barmé, In the Red
Tiananmen, Ten Years Later
A Turning Point in the History of Opposition in China
How Social Strata Come to Be Formed
Social differentiation among the migrant peasants of Henan Village in Peking (Part Two)
Michel Bonnin • Michel Bonnin • Feng Xiaoshuang • Tang Can
How Social Strata Come to Be Formed
Social Differentiation among the Migrant Peasants of Henan Village in Peking
Part 1
Michel Bonnin • Feng Xiaoshuang • Tang Can • Jean Philippe Béja
Hong Kong politics one year on
Worst Case Scenario Fails to Materialise
The New Cabinet approved by the 9th NPC on March 18th 1998
CP 15, January - February 1998
The New Immigrants in Hong Kong
The Image of Hong Kong among Chinese Immigrants
CP 14, November - December 1997
The 15th Congress: Reform In, Politics Out
Hong Kong’s Homecoming: No Gain Without Pain
Hong Kong’s Role as Off-shore Political Haven
Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong: An Uncertain Future
The Death of Deng Xiaoping
The Heirs under Pressure
China from Deng to Jiang
Noël Mamère and Marie Holzman: Chine — on ne bâillonne pas la lumière
Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon: Hong Kong Remembers
CP 8, November - December 1996
The “Say No” Fever: Three new books on China’s recent assertiveness on the world stage
CP 7, September - October 1996
Migrants Workers: an Asset for China?
CP 7, September - October 1996
Qiao Bian, Zhang Zangzang and Song Qian: Zhongguo keyi shuo bu (China Can Say No)
Hong Kong: Less Than a Year to Go and Anxiety Still Rules…
Jasper Becker: Hungry Ghosts
Magic Weapons but the Magic Is Wearing Off
Nationalism: Intellectuals Divided
When the Saints Come Marching Back
Nostalgia for the “Bad Old Days”
Peking’s Theme Restaurants
Life and Death of Zhejiang Village
The Destruction of the “Village”
Michel Bonnin • Jean Philippe Béja
CP 2, November - December 1995
A Victory for Nothing?
The Success of the Democratic Party in the Legislative Elections
CP 1, September - October 1995
Cause for Celebration?
Michel Bonnin • Jean Philippe Béja
CP 1, September - October 1995
End of the Road for Special Economic Zones?
Intense debate on the future of Deng Xiaoping’s pet projects
CP 1, September - October 1995
The Press in Hong Kong
Flourishing but Under Threat
CP 1, September - October 1995
Portrait of a Committed Journalist
Veteran of the Hong Kong Press, Wan Fai, paints a pessimistic picture
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