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...rules of the "Deliberative Poll," an approach to public consultation devised by James Fishkin, a professor at Stanford University. Fishkin originally developed his poll to measure and promote informed public opinion in the U.S., but he is in Zeguo at the behest of its Communist Party secretary, Jiang Zhaohua. The two met at a conference in Hangzhou in November and struck a deal in which Fishkin could test his model's applicability to China and Jiang could get what he describes as a "scientific reading" of Zeguo's preferences. In the school auditorium Fishkin tells the crowd, "This experiment...
...What could induce a local Communist leader to try out the democratic tools of ancient Greece or contemporary America? Jiang, 42, who unusually for a man in his position has a degree in philosophy, says the reasons are practical, not ideological. Zeguo's redesign requires more construction than his budget will cover. By inviting the public to choose which projects should come first, Jiang says, he avoids not only "the headache of having to guess what the people want," but also the perception that he might have chosen particular projects because of kickbacks. What's more, overhauls like these often...
...none of Zeguo's Communist leaders seem worried that this forum might set a dangerous precedent. Jiang, who will present the meeting's data to the local People's Congress, says he also wants to train local cadres in data analysis so that he can hold more polls. For now at least, some democracy is useful?even in a one-party town...
...call "epic" when they succeed and "overwrought" when they fail, films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock...
...RELEASED. JIANG YANYONG, 73, Chinese military surgeon whose 2003 open letter to the government exposed a cover-up of the sars epidemic; from house arrest; in Beijing. Jiang was detained for questioning by military officials last June over another letter he sent senior Chinese leaders, this time asking for a reappraisal of the 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. Jiang is now free to leave his house, but has been ordered to submit regular "thought reports" to his local Communist Party Committee and is barred from talking to the media...