Marxist Theorists

Time for political opening up, ex-cadre Bao Tong says

22 Jul 2012

Rising social problems over the past decade have led China into a critical era in civil rights protection, with the establishment of a democratic government being the only way out for the ruling...

Mainland's last chance to reform

3 Jun 2012

A top policy adviser to the government's economic planning agency says the Deng-era approach to reform has run its course and that the window of opportunity for moving to a rule-based system is...

The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State

3 Jun 2012

The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State
by Zhang Weiwei
World Century

Hiring of arts boss 'was done properly'

17 May 2012

The man chosen to lead Hong Kong's top performing arts academy impressed the selection panel with his experiences in restructuring educational institutions, the South China Morning Post has learnt...

Who said it?

6 May 2012

Sunday will determine if we stay in Europe and the euro

Former Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos commenting on Greece's upcoming election

My girls say there...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Open up

Despite the media frenzy all over the world, the Bo Xilai affair may have opened a window of opportunity for Chinese leaders to build a consensus for launching serious political reforms.

Many wrongs, but not that many rights

There is a terrible passage at the end of Andre Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine, often translated as Man's Fate, which describes Kuomintang troops cranking up a steam train's furnace - to...

Wrong route

To mark the 20th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's southern tour, both Xinhua and the People's Daily published commentaries to push for reforms.

'Transition to market economy must continue'

The mainland has reached a 'turning point' after three decades in which gross domestic product growth averaged 10 per cent a year, and now needs to complete the transition to being a market...

A trip south worth remembering today

This week 20 years ago, the then 88-year-old Deng Xiaoping arrived in Guangzhou on his special train and began what later became known as his famous southern tour.

Last tribute for Mao's chosen successor

The park and mausoleum for Hua Guofeng, the transitional Communist Party leader at the end of the Cultural Revolution, officially opened to the public yesterday in Shanxi province after Hua's...