Tag: social welfare
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From Project Nous to the Commodification of Education
in OpinionsRecently, I am involved in a non-governmental organization project called Project Nous. It is a program initiated by a few Chinese international students to the U.S. and Europe, promoting the idea of liberal arts education, which is insufficient within China’s state education system, by organizing summer camps in Chinese cities, where seminars of no more…
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Power of Social Security System and Working-Class Resistance in Taiwan’s Democratization
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, proclaims itself an exemplary case of soaring economic development and successful democratization for the last few decades. However, it had been an authoritarian regime with a party-state system, rule of fear, and harsh penalty system after the WWII, and even harsher during the earlier period of Japanese occupation. Various…