This is the second post of our three-part series (I) looking at the structure of the ancient Greek polis. Last week we looked at how the Greeks understood the component parts of a polis, so this week we're going to look at how those parts were governed. The Greek term for the structure of a…
On April 1, 1969, delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party convened in the Great Hall of the People on the western flank of Tiananmen Square. The hall had been constructed as one of the Ten Grand Edifices 十大建築 hastily constructed to celebrate the first decade of the People’s Republic of China in 1959. It was used for major meetings of the socialist party-state ever since.
Enemies of the twenty-year-old Communist regime in Beijing were everywhere. In the atmosphere of extreme paranoia that marked the Cultural Revolution years (from its ideological inception in 1964 to its denouement in late 1978), unless something appeared in the pages of the
Interview: Chetan Ramchurn ‘Should the chasm between the people and their representatives grow, we will be sitting on a ticking time bomb’ ‘Institutions are the men and women that make them. I would hope that they stand up for what is moral’
The observations of Chetan Ramchurn in this issue’s interview on the several aberrations that have marked the country this year are as usual sharp and to the point, quite in line with his usual
franc-parler. He is a private entrepreneur who has appeared several times in our columns, and he echoes the sentiments of the younger generation of patriots whose responsibility is to prepare the country for the future and as such his views have to be taken with all the seriousness that they deserve. Read on…