奥巴马mania
I just joined this website, but I was surprised to see no post about the American elections in China (perhaps I found it surprising because it has been so press...
Category: China
Sleeping Chinese
A whole website full of picture of Sleeping Chinese I found it via Fallows, who adds a caveat (specifically for Chinese readers) that he is not trying to call ...
December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few China bits. Even a few from elsewhere! Also lots of other neat stuff.
Let us give thanks
China Daily has a nice article on attempts to import the American/Canadian holiday Thanksgiving into China. Some foreign holidays fit well with Chinese culture,...
China a growing trend
A recent article in the NYT (link at bottom) showed that China is now the 5th most popular destination for American study abroad students, after Britain, Italy,...
Lost Stories
I recently came across a book called Some of Us[i], recommended to me by one of the contributing authors, Dr. Jiang Jin. The book is a collection of memoirs and...
Self Introduction
My name is Gina, I just recently graduated from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in history and Asian studies. I’m between schools right n...
How do you say that in Changsha?
I found a couple of cool language tools. Both are hosted by the Russian site Tower of Babel, which appears to be run by some serious linguists who have complied...
Pictures of China
Google now has a lot of old pictures from the archives of Life magazine. Lots and lots of cool China stuff, like this skater from 1946. They seem, not surprisin...
Newspaper Digitization at Shandong Provincial Library
I am currently spending my days at a microfilm machine in the basement of Shandong Provincial library, looking through old wartime newspapers from occupied and ...
On Wikipedia
Charles had a nice post a while back on Wikipedia and the changing world of scholarship. He deals pretty well with what wikipedia is (an on-line, collectively e...
Chinese in the Great War
As it is 11/11 Blood and Treasure has a nice post up on Chinese laborers along with a link with lots of great pics. B&T suggests that Chinese laborers in th...
The end of export-led growth?
I don’t post much about current affairs1 but the current Chinese stimulus package seems worth talking about. To forestall the possibility of an economic d...
Online China Maps at the University of Texas
While I’m sure there are a lot of similar resources that deserve equal mention, I wanted to post a link while it is fresh on my mind. There are a great co...
Virtual Forbidden City
Imagethief has been discussing the Virtual Forbidden City. Basically this is something that looks a lot like a Second Life site but you have to download the who...