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Korean ethno-nationalism and sappy TV dramas

Posted on October 19, 2010 by gina / 1 Comment

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 ...

China/English

A new resource

Posted on October 19, 2010 by gina / 1 Comment

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...

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China and the Middle Ground

Posted on February 3, 2010 by gina / 3 Comments

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...

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Books on Hong Kong

Posted on January 11, 2010 by gina / 2 Comments

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...

anniversaries/China/English/Events

Happy Birthday PRC

Posted on October 2, 2009 by gina / 0 Comment

Chinabeat has put together some pretty good links that outline many of the festivities going on for the big 60th anniversary. The following link outlines 10 of ...

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Louis Vuitton and Roast Duck Meat

Posted on July 9, 2009 by gina / 1 Comment

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...

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International gender studies conference

Posted on June 16, 2009 by gina / 0 Comment

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...

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Destruction in the name of progress

Posted on June 13, 2009 by gina / 3 Comments

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...

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Edging out the competition

Posted on May 19, 2009 by gina / 0 Comment

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...

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人民日报's Suez Canal (and other commentary)

Posted on May 5, 2009 by gina / 2 Comments

   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...

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Battle for the blogosphere

Posted on March 18, 2009 by gina / 2 Comments

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...

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Chinese Goldilocks

Posted on February 26, 2009 by gina / 1 Comment

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

China/English

Pinyin or bust

Posted on January 28, 2009 by gina / 1 Comment

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...

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A Dictionary that Could Change your Life

Posted on January 13, 2009 by gina / 7 Comments

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...

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A crack in the firewall?

Posted on December 23, 2008 by gina / 4 Comments

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 ...

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