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Over the past 2000 years, Chinese politics has been dominated by alternating processes of unification & division. Because fissures have emerged as the centralized power of each dynasty declined, some observers think that when Deng Xiaoping -- contemporary People's Republic of China's old emperor -- dies, & Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin begins to loose a grip on power, division will set in. But other factors are involved, eg, Taiwanese assertiveness & the emergence of separatist movements in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, & Tibet. Given these circumstances, some type of genuine federalism might provide a workable compromise between the urge to independence of minorities & the aspirations to unity of the Han majority. 4 Figures. M. Maguire

Blockchain has become a new frontier of venture capitals that has attracted the attention of banks, governments, and other business corporations. The recent blockchain related attempts included legal blockchains by Fadada.com and Microsoft and pork tracking blockchains by Walmart and IBM. Blockchain is poised to become the most exciting invention after the Internet; while the latter connects the world to enable new business models based on online business processes, the former will help resolve the trust issue more efficiently via network computing. In this paper, we give an overview on blockchain research and development as well as introduce the papers in this special issue. We show that while blockchain has enabled Bitcoin, the most successful digital currency, its widespread adoption in finance and other business sectors will lead to many business innovations as well as many research opportunities.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: China's minority nationalities./ Ed. Ma Yin

Deng Xiaoping's reforms led to the emergence of a group of reformist intellectuals in China. As leaders of think tanks and other official or semi-official institutions, these intellectuals exerted tremendous influence over the country's political agenda in the past decade. Hua Shiping analyses in this paper the writing of three such intellectuals: Su Shaozhi, Wang Ruoshi and Yan Jiaqi. They make critical comments on Hua Shiping's paper. Su Shaozhi points out that the basic ideas of Marxism - historical materialism - is still valid. Wang Ruoshi considers Marx' philosophy of man the most valuable part of his theory. (DÜI-Sen)