Author: gina

I’m currently TAing for a class on Modern Korean history, and we just finished discussing the concept of minjok （民族 or minzu in Chinese) as it related to ...

For those who would like to read about new research in Chinese history without having to drudge through proquest, please check out a new website, Chinese Histor...

This week, our East Asia History Reading Group had the fortune of discussing Richard White’s The Middle Ground with Professor White himself. The purpose o...

Recently, I’ve been leaning my research towards Hong Kong (a subject I tend to write about a lot…). I found that a lot of scholars of China and scho...

Currently, the Hong Kong Art Museum is showing an exhibit of art either created or sponsored by Louis Vuitton. For those moving through Hong Kong in the next fe...

For those of you who happen to be in Shanghai, Fudan University will be hosting China’s first international gender studies conference in a couple of weeks...

Kashgar, China, a city often on the map for historians (especially historians of the silk road) has recently come to the attention of many around the world beca...

For all those keeping track, behind youtube, the most recent site to be blocked by the firewall is blogspot. This means, for our readers in China, that China Be...

   As I was flipping through the People’s Daily from the 1950s recently, something completely unrelated to my research caught my attention[1]: political c...

The anniversary for the June 4th movement in China is just about here, once again shining a light on China’s progress in the human rights area in the last...

Recently, I’ve been looking at Maoist period elementary Chinese textbooks (or perhaps a better translation would be Language Arts textbooks), which are co...

A recent obituary of John DeFrancis emphasized his personal desire to see the Chinese overhaul its writing system, claiming that the failure of the Communist go...

I see a lot of passing on of digital tools, and a fellow Fulbrighter sent along this link, a Chinese dictionary where you can write in the characters and it loo...

The Chinese firewall seems to be acting up. On Saturday, authors of the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS and other newspapers I’m sure noted that the ...