Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

WHY SHOULD THE CHINESE PAY ANY ATTENTION?

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I’ve been reflecting on my last 50 years of efforts at reforming public service systems – seeing if there was anything I could add to what I...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Chinese repression

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A year ago, I was waiting impatiently to make my exit from Beijing. Everything I’ve read about events there since then confirms me in my ju...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Chinese administrative reforms in international perspective

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OK out there – all thousands of you – the moment you have been waiting for has arrived! I have completed my paper for the Euro-Sino dialogu...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

A brave lawyer

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Lawyers generally get a poor press - so I am pleased to pay tribute to those Chinese lawyers who, for the past decade, have been the vangua...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

party control and discipline

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I paced myself better yesterday – with an hour’s sawing session in the morning and another in the afternoon. But another couple of sessions...
Friday, October 15, 2010

In and beyond transition - some blogs

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I’ve already remarked (in more of the French sense of noticing!) that, for a blog from the Carpathian mountains, I do not say very much abo...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Carpe Diem

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In the last 24 hours I have been buying Amazon books as if there were no tomorrow. Some 36 will be winging their way to the mountains in the...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

the seasons change

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Apparently August 15th is St Mary’s day (?) after which the season begins its winddown to autumn – and, in the mountains, the change is palp...
Friday, July 9, 2010

new approaches to government

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The richness of the web is sometimes too much. This morning I wanted to write something about complexity, social interventions and policy ...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Hay, rain, Windows and democracy

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A mixed bag of goodies this morning. I did indeed do some scything yesterday morning – before the rains came yet again. And this morning a...