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Responding to the attacks, several campus groups cancelled or postponed meetings. Prefect Nancy J. Chang ’02 said she decided to postpone the first-year mixer “Singled Out” indefinitely. It had been scheduled for yesterday night...
...their job in helping to develop the territory into a creative city. No metropolis ever became important without world-class academic institutions. Consider the City University of Hong Kong. Earlier this year when one of its professors, Li Shaomin, disappeared into a Chinese jail on trumped-up spy charges, Chang Hsin-kang, City University president, refused to extend any help even as some 600 scholars and colleagues of Li's around the world signed a petition calling for a fair and open trial. Chang excused himself by claiming Li's wife never requested help. (In fact she had asked...
...book is timely. Chang, an American-born Chinese, has lived and worked in China for almost two decades, most recently as a Shanghai-based lawyer in a leading U.S. firm. But this is not a work of serious sinology. Most of his anecdotes appear to have been gleaned from media reports, including those from television. The book more closely resembles a lengthy, impassioned address prepared for a law-school debate...
...debate adjudicator might give Chang good marks for summarizing succinctly much of the economic swamp that China is currently wading through. But by pinpointing the year and circumstances of counterrevolution, Chang risks derision. The Chinese are no slouches at barbarian management, and Western banks are nothing if not monuments to self-interest. If a catastrophic, WTO-triggered bank run seemed imminent, it is hard to believe that the principals wouldn't collaborate to contain...
...Should Chang's entire thesis be discarded? Maybe not. As Sidney Webb, a Fabian Society co-founder, once said: economists are "generally right in their predictions, but generally a good deal out on their dates." China's command capitalism is currently a mess, and repeated failures to sort it out could conceivably destroy public order one day. Perhaps Chang will be proven right?if we, including especially those party Neanderthals, wait long enough...