But what about the books?
So supposedly they are going to tear down my office building and replace it with a new one. This may end up not happening, and it will probably not happen real ...
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人民日报's Suez Canal (and other commentary)
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...
It was twenty years ago today
If three times is a trend then there is now a trend of historical liveblogging about China. CDT is doing a liveblog of the Tiananmen demonstrations for the 20th...
Revising history: Brief notes
Quick hits: It’s one of the most difficult periods of modern history to teach, and I love using primary sources for the tough times, so I’m always g...
May 4th is irrelevant
May Fourth is here and one of the things that makes the 21st century great is that if you want to read some May Fourth writers you don’t have to go to you...
Bad sons
Over at A Ku Indeed Chris asks about Mencius 4A28, in which Mencius commends Shun for transforming his father. He (Shun) considered that if one could not get t...
Images of China
BibliOddyssey has a nice post up with cool pictures from the World Digital Library. The site has images from all over the world, and a really neat interface. Th...
Teaching History (No China content. Not much history, either)
Via HNN some information on standards for teaching history at the college level. For those of you who are not Americans, there has been a big push towards R...
Cultural critique today and yesterday
Feng Zikai rides a grass mud horse It’s not his work, I think, but it looks a lot like it.
Chin music
Today is Opening Day, and the Cubs are in first place, so all is well with the world. I just got a copy of Yu Junwei’s Playing in Isolation: A History of ...
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...
Why Asians are different from (Latin) Americans
In a recent speech Zhou Xiaochuan gave a nice clear summary of the reasons for Asian economic exceptionalism and the cultural (and therefore apparently mostly u...