Smoking in China
A good book answers your questions. A really good book answers questions you had not thought of yet. Apparently Tim Brook’s Vermeer’s Hat is a reall...
Author: Alan Baumler
Conceptual art
Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu’s “Twin Pines, Level Distance,” something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no mor...
The Impossible Nude
Following up a quote on Thomas Hahn’s site I got a hold of Francois Julien’s The Impossible Nude – Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics.1 Jullie...
How things work (in China)
I have been reading a really interesting book on Chinese tools. Well, actually the most interesting thing about it is the title: Hommel, Rudolf P. China at Work...
Resource on Chinese photography
Hunting leopards in Zhejiang, 1935 I’ve been doing a bit of photo and video stuff lately, and one site that has been very helpful is Thomas Hahn’s ...
First, kill all the Legalists
Sam at Useless Tree draws our attention to a really interesting website called 新法家(in English the New Legalist) I’m not quite sure who these people are, b...
Why is Obama winning?
There are few things I enjoy more than following American elections in the Chinese press. Zaobao (from Singapore) had something recently on Obama and why he is ...
Strawberry Cake
One of my students is doing an honors thesis on kissing. Specifically she is looking at a series of articles from Ling Long that explain what kissing is and why...
Cool Taiwan election stuff
From Michael Turton.
Chinese tools
Here are a few cool tools for those of you (like my students) who are learning Chinese. Beijing sounds is a cool blog about how Chinese is spoken in Beijing, wi...
Ming Imperialism
I just found something interesting about the early Ming. It appears from the Ming Shi-lu that the Ming founder at first just sent envoys to various tributary st...
Racial harmony in China's North-East
In honor of Black History Month I thought I would post something on W.E.B. Dubois and China. I knew that DuBois had dabbled in almost every radical movement ima...
Darwin the Confucian
As today is Darwin Day I thought I would post something on China’s reception of Darwin’s work. He tended to be confused with Spencer at first, and E...