Social Philosophy

Chinese women's long march to equal rights and participation

31 Aug 2012

Prior to her execution by a Kuomintang firing squad in 1928, the political activist Xiang Jingyu famously declared: "If the women's suffrage movement is successful, it will simply mean that a...

West has no reason to be smug

18 Aug 2012

If it had been my 10-year-old daughter, it might have been OK. A simple mistake, the duty of parents to correct. But when the error is made by someone who wants to be the next leader of the free...

Helen Gurley Brown, longtime Cosmopolitan editor, dies at 90

15 Aug 2012

Helen Gurley Brown, who inspired women in the 1960s to go out and get what they wanted out of life, including good sex whether they were married or not, has died.

Europe has only itself to blame

26 Jul 2012

Capitalism in the West is not only deficient and diseased but is not working.

Kevin Rafferty

SCMP Business, July 25

New appreciation of old 'Asian values'

20 Jul 2012

Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, came up with the 'Asian values' argument to justify legitimate but non-democratic regimes. More recently, the Communist Party of China, having...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home untilit becomes affordable

Tom Holland

Signs of nightmare scenario in China's latest economic data

Leaner, fitter

If, given the imminent rise of Asia, the world wants to avoid a bleak future, austerity has to be the new global norm.

What women really, really want

If a job is done well, it should make no difference whether the employee is male or female, and they should be rewarded with the same pay for the same work. It sounds like an argument based on...

Family first

Many Hongkongers would agree that they often wish they could spend more time with their family. With the passage of the International Day of Families on Tuesday, it is a good time to ask: Have we...

Our future economic success rests on the balanced sum of state and market

The more I study the Indian and Chinese growth models, the more I realise that the debate over the state versus the market is a false dichotomy. Both the state and the market are inseparable,...

Talk the walk, walk the talk

The term 'body language' is so ubiquitous today that it seems it's been around for as long as its two component words. However, Robert Phipps - body-language expert and author of this study -...

Game of rivals

If anything, the recent Brookings Institution-Peking University report on the strategic distrust between the United States and China points to a difficult period ahead for the world's two most...