China on the move
I found a nice paper on migration inside China from Vox 1 They look at migrations inside China, and find a lot of things that you would expect. Network effects ...
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China Postcards
Are you keeping up with China Postcards on Flikr? You should be, as he is posting an amazing collection of old cards, press photos and other stuff. Above we hav...
Announcements and Encouragements
While the discussions on the Asia lists have been a bit wooden for a while, other H-Net communities are lively and thriving, and the book reviews are a fantasti...
Bruce Willis and Harvard Yenching
I dropped by Harvard-Yenching library this afternoon to pick up some books requested from the depository and look up a few more from my todo list. I noted down ...
Yellow Peril Mk 3.
Lots of people have already commented on the Chinese professor video, which is getting a lot of play in the US. If you have not seen it, it is set in the year ...
Korean ethno-nationalism and sappy TV dramas
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 ...
A new resource
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...
Delicious spam
I got an e-mail from Online Colleges. It seems to be a semi-scam site that offers to connect you to on-line colleges without actually, from what I can tell, pro...
China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds
I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...
Hoping for charity, without getting faith involved
The New Republic has an article by Gordon Chang on the lack of philanthropy among China’s rich. As he points out, one of the things blocking the emergence...
Some stuff
Proper prayer technique China in Africa China Cliches Victor Mair has a great post at Language log on the question of “Is Q a Chinese character” Or...
It's a man's life
From Gawker a set of military recruitment ads from around the world. Representing East Asia we have Taiwanese who gain skills while defending 20 million people ...
Tears and sincerity
A while back I was wondering why people in classical Chinese texts seemed to cry so much. Was being able to shed tears on demand something that people were supp...
Restoring China's past glory
Via CDT a report on gated communities for the poor outside Beijing. In theory the purpose is to protect residents from crime, but of course the main goal is to ...