I am honored to have obtained Professor Sidney Gluck's (right) permission to allow me to repost here some of his work and interview related to China and socialism. Professor Gluck is professor emertius at the New School University in New York. A classical Marxist, Gluck has been studying China for 60 years in history and modern development. He has lectured all over the country and still welcomes engagement at the age of 94 – photo © Sandi Bachom

• Gluck on US-China Relations 2004

Oh, please do not get me wrong. This new section is not about using computers on or programming with a corpus, but rather I am currently constructing a new corpus based on the CACM, Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery, from January 2008 to date. As a professional grade ACM member since 1997, I have always been fascinated by some of the very conservative (and the sometimes very aggressive) words scientists use when they talk (or brag) about their new inventions or methodologies. How many of them actually come into real use? Could there be some insights we can possibly derive, especially from the linguistics perspective?