Contra Hip-Hop (Xunzi on Music)
As I discussed last time, Xunzi clearly saw ritual as important, but important in very different way from his predecessors. Yes, a gentleman should perform ritu...
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Thin layer sensing with multipolar plasmonic resonances (and showgirls)
Via Language Log, something on how to make a fool of yourself in Chinese. Apparently the Max Plank Institute asked for a nice Chinese poem for their cover and g...
Sleeping Chinese
A whole website full of picture of Sleeping Chinese I found it via Fallows, who adds a caveat (specifically for Chinese readers) that he is not trying to call ...
Let us give thanks
China Daily has a nice article on attempts to import the American/Canadian holiday Thanksgiving into China. Some foreign holidays fit well with Chinese culture,...
How do you say that in Changsha?
I found a couple of cool language tools. Both are hosted by the Russian site Tower of Babel, which appears to be run by some serious linguists who have complied...
Pictures of China
Google now has a lot of old pictures from the archives of Life magazine. Lots and lots of cool China stuff, like this skater from 1946. They seem, not surprisin...
On Wikipedia
Charles had a nice post a while back on Wikipedia and the changing world of scholarship. He deals pretty well with what wikipedia is (an on-line, collectively e...
Chinese in the Great War
As it is 11/11 Blood and Treasure has a nice post up on Chinese laborers along with a link with lots of great pics. B&T suggests that Chinese laborers in th...
The end of export-led growth?
I don’t post much about current affairs1 but the current Chinese stimulus package seems worth talking about. To forestall the possibility of an economic d...
Virtual Forbidden City
Imagethief has been discussing the Virtual Forbidden City. Basically this is something that looks a lot like a Second Life site but you have to download the who...
Guangxu poisoned!
Update on this breaking story here and here I’m not sure how important this will turn out to be. I always thought it was fairly obvious he had been bumped...
Mountains, Vikings, and Chinese Poetry
Lots of people seem to like Chinese poetry. The latest NYRB has a review of a reprint of A.C. Graham’s Poems of the Late T’ang by Eliot Weinberger.1...
Appel de Blois
European historians are appealing for support in resisting laws that will criminalize historical inquiry. You can find the text of their appeal and a link to an...
What to do with temples?
Another in our occasional series on teaching aids. One aspect of Chinese modernization that most teachers mention is the modernizing state’s need for buil...