"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism
Over at the invaluable Danwei, Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...
Author: C. W. Hayford
JOURNAL WATCH: H-DIPLO JOURNAL AND PERIODICAL REVIEW
A major problem nowadays is to somehow find that newly published article in a journal you don’t subscribe to – I miss enough articles in the journals I do subsc...
China Rises? China Wakes?
“Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.” Napoleon? Although there’s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote ...
April Fool's Day, Self Puffery and Töfood
Hooray for me! China Beat, my second favorite China blog, has started a series of quizzes — why didn’t we think of that? The most recent asked reade...
Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face
What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...
Invisible Books – Might Have Been Written But Never Were
The Italian writer Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a dreamy fabulation on cities that Marco Polo might have visited – if only they had existed. Of cou...
Living With Wikipedia (China Beat) and Social Bookmarking
China Beat asked me to pull together some thoughts on “WIKIPEDIA, the Free Encyclopedia.” With help from several friends, including Alan Baumler and Konrad Laws...
St Sebastian Redux
At Danwei, a blog you must follow to keep up with China, “Donnie Yen Meditates on Violence” shows the Hong Kong movie star posed as the martyred Sai...
Asian History Carnival Pt II is Up
Leanne Ogasawara has posted Pt II of the 21st Asian History Carnival at her Tang Dynasty Times. Although she complains that the blogosphere is in a depression a...
21st Asian History Carnival Pt II Now Posted
Leanne Ogasawara has posted Pt II of the 21st Asian History Carnival at her Tang Dynasty Times. Although she complains that the blogosphere is in a depression a...
Pearl Buck's Intriguing Staying Power: Imperial Woman
Parade Magazine (September 14, 2008) asked Laura Bush what she’s been reading: “The Imperial Woman, by Pearl S. Buck. I picked up this book after re...
"Never the Twain Shall (Track) Meet": Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Olympic Lies
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management has a well informed insider’s view of the Olympics, “Olympics Reveal East-West Divide.” (F...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”
Do Chinese lie? The Western media have jumped on recent revelations about doctoring the Olympic opening ceremonies and allegations about false ages of their gym...
Hua Guofeng: Hats Off!
While we wait for Jeremiah at Jottings from the Granite Studio to say something substantive, I’d like to put in another good word for Hua, the man with th...
Red Star Over Edgar Snow
Edgar Snow’s birthday is sometime this week but they can’t agree on which day it is. The 1972 obituary in the omniscient NY Times had it as July 19, 1905, as do...