Over the last few years, the Austrian school has emerged as a global phenomena, with Mises Institutes cropping up all over the world.
Now you might think that China would be the last place to find a group of free-marketers, but in fact not only does the webmaster of Mises.org live in Shanghai, but there is a lively and rapidly growing group of expats and locals who share many similar ideas and interests. If you’d like to join us, email us or apply to the Google Group.
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China doesn’t seem like a very lively environment to engage in political and economic talk.
“In 1994, there were 10,000 protests, according to China’s Public Security Ministry; by 2003, there were some 58,000; and in 2004 there were 74,000 incidents involving some 3.76 million people. Even these figures are “probably underreported,” Segal says. Cohen says the 2004 figure has probably doubled in the last year, putting the number of 2005 protests at over 150,000.”
http://www.cfr.org/china/chinas-angry-peasants/p9425#
With 150,000 protests in China last year I don’t see why civilised intellectual discussion is not possible in the far east.
What were they protesting about? Let’s not forget, in China there is much censorship, as to what exactly, I’m not sure, maybe somebody here can enlighten me.
I am from the USA & have been working and living in Shanghai for almost two years. I will be here at least until August 2013. I just sent an email to the contact in the post. I’d love to join the group!
The same here, but I live in Shenzhen. Any Austrians in Guangdong?
Hey Tso, contact me at jschutte@gmail.com, I live in Luohu near Diwang
Sounds like an amazing idea…anyone from Beijing?
Interesting. Does the Chinese Communist Party know how potentially dangerous this development could be to their Nazilike hold on power?
Btw, the CPC “was founded on July 1, 1921 in Shanghai“. It would be interesting to find out exactly how much sentimental attachment the members of the CPC have to the location in the photo.
Check it out. The scene is visually charming, and that in spite of the museum there.
This is fantastic. Actually in many ways China is more fertile soil than the USA.
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