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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...

anniversaries/Authors/China/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Orwell and China

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been meaning to blog about Ibisbill’s post on George Orwell and China, but as I have not come up with anything to say, I suppose I should just toss...

Archives/Authors/China

News from the City of Five Rams

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Everybody on this blog is publishing stuff lately. The scholar formerly known as Gina Russo, now known as Gina Russo Tam, has a nice review up on the archives o...

Authors/China/English/Literature

Yellow Peril 3.1

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Via Cameron Campbell’s Facebook feed I found a link to How Social Darwinism Made Modern China: A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom  ...

Authors/China/English/Historiography

Make it Just So, Mr. Fukuyama

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been reading Francis Fukuyama’s new book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. It is, as the title suggests...

Authors/China

Chalmers Johnson remembered

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

His wife on his life and career.

Authors/China/English/Republican/Teaching

Education in pictures

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As we are at mid-semester I thought it would be a nice time to think about Education, with a little help from Feng Zikai, Republican China’s best-known ca...

Authors/Books/China/English/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Translation

Transvestite chickens late at night

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I’ve been reading Cao Naiqian‘s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night. It’s an odd sort of book, and you can see wh...

Authors/Books/China/English/Foreign Views/Gender/Historiography/Translation

Pearl Buck's Intriguing Staying Power: Imperial Woman

Posted on September 17, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

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...

Authors/Books/China/English/Literature/Translation

Lin Yutang and Chinese literature

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

One of my neighbors was doing some spring cleaning and brought me this. Lin was a notable if somewhat minor intellectual figure in China but his real fame came ...

Authors/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/English/Ethnic Minorities/Mongols and Mongolia

China's Robinson Crusoe

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been reading Wolf Totem and having a lot of fun doing so. The book, based on Jiang Rong’s time as a sent-down youth in Inner Mongolia. was a hu...

Authors/Books/China/Culture/Current Events/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Teaching/Translation

New Chinese Literature

Posted on May 4, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times has published three reviews of new Chinese works in translation: Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (pen na...

Authors/Books/China/English/Literature/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources

Ding Mocun, Lung Ying-tai and Lust, Caution

Posted on September 25, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

Ang Lee‘s (李安) new movie Lust, Caution (色,戒) is apparently being released later this week in the United States. The movie won a Golden Lion at the Venice ...

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