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Author: C. W. Hayford

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Confucius at Eighty: Sufficiently Decayed or Ready for a Great Xi Change?

Posted on March 3, 2023 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Kong Qiu, Kongzi, or Master Kong, known in English as “Confucius,” marked the passing of the decades: At fifteen I set my heart upon learning.At thirty, I had p...

Historiography/Humor/Pedagogy

Grand Centennial Best Opening Vignette Contest!

Posted on January 30, 2019 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Jonathan’s “On the Opening Vignette” is so fresh and smart that the only response is to turn it into a contest: who can write the best opening...

Current Events/Food/General/Humor

Trump Promotes Chinese Food: Egg roll on White House Lawn

Posted on April 23, 2017 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

      In an unusual move, last Monday the White House lawn was given over to egg rolls. The Italian Ambassador contributed to the moment by bringing “ciao mein....

Articles/Authors/Books/China/China-U.S./Christianity/East vs West/Foreign Views/Frog in A Well/Historiography

China from “Over There” to “Back Then”: A Second Helping on E.A. Ross

Posted on November 3, 2016 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Alan Baumler’s juicy February 19 post “Edward Alsworth Ross and The Good Old Days of Scholarship,” inspired me to look back through my notes.1...

China/English/Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Do Your Bit, Or, Mao Zedong Gets 100,000 Hits

Posted on July 26, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

Catching up on my reading, I came across a Wilson Quarterly post about Wikipedia, “In Essence: The Wikipedia Way,” which reports on an article by Ri...

China/English/Humor/Libraries/visual culture

Seek Truth from Farts

Posted on July 4, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

My passing comment on Alan’s Seek Truth from Facts mentioned that I once saw “Seek Truth From Farts.” Maybe it was a misprint, maybe a comment...

China/English/Japan/Pigs/Public History/Wikipedia

Pigs in the News and In Wikipedia: Or, Lipstick on a Frog

Posted on June 30, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Vladimir Putin is on a roll. He has been having a fine time poking the US in the eye over the Edward Snowden kerfuffle,  but at a news conference he declin...

China/English/Historiography/Intellectual

What Do Lin Yutang and Lin Biao Have in Common? They Were Both Memory Holed

Posted on February 2, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Global Voices, a quite useful and smart blog, on January 30 posted Two Versions of Mao’s China: History Retouched as Propaganda, which has an set of uncanny ...

China/Classics/Culture/East vs West/English

Ungraded Love or Double Standards? Stanley Fish, Stephen Asma, and Confucius

Posted on January 13, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

Stanley Fish, no stranger to controversy, has a piece on the New York Times online blog, Opinionator, Favoritism Is Good (January 9, 2013). Fish is known for su...

China/Culture/English/Food

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions: It's a Post-Authentic World

Posted on March 24, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

A note to those who are imprudent enough not to follow the Japanese side of Frog in a Well:  Jonathan Dresner has a smart, witty, and informative piece, Credent...

Asian American/China/English/Food

Who's Afraid of Chop Suey? Or, The Politics of Authenticity

Posted on February 14, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

  I humbly report that I have a piece —  “Who’s Afraid of Chop Suey?” — in the most recent Education About Asia (Winter 2011)...

China/Culture/English

Dragons, Dragons Everywhere! But They Don't Shake the World

Posted on January 21, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

This week you run across dragons just about everywhere. President Obama welcomed the Year of the Dragon from the White House (here), while Paul French did likew...

China/Culture/East vs West/English

Dragons in the News: Is a Long a Dragon?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 7 Comments

The Year of the Dragon is upon us – should we be afraid? Around the English speaking world, magazine covers and editorial writers rely on the dragon as a colorf...

China/East vs West/English/Historiography/Web Sites and Resources

Names and Dates In English and Chinese

Posted on July 13, 2011 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

I recently discovered Beijing Time Machine, run  by Jared Hall. His recent piece Time over Place: Naming Historical Events in Chinese (ironically, it is not dat...

China/Culture/English

Year of the Hare… um "Rabbit"?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

February third is the Lunar New Year, celebrated in East Asia as the New Year or Spring Festival. The Reuters article “Chinese Ready for Upheaval, Sex in ...

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