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...
Category: China
Asian History Carnival 21:1
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Beware of Female Spies
I decided to bring you a little Friday night clipping from the archives where, as always, I have my eye open for treason and treachery: In the Chinese national ...
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...
Hua Guofeng
It is not often that a historic figure like Chairman Hua leaves us, and while I can’t possibly compete with Jeremiah in my reverence for the red, red (wel...
Lin Yutang and Chinese literature
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 ...
Coming Soon: The 21st Asian History Carnival
The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations fo...
舊版報紙資訊網: Initial Thoughts and Technical Review
I have been spending a few days looking at one of the important early postwar newspapers in Taiwan, 臺灣新生報, using the microfilm collection on the 6th floor Taiwa...
National Taiwan University Library
I’ve started an entry for the NTU Library at the EALA wiki. Besides the fact that this is a wonderful library by any international standard, I’m rea...
Old Friends in New Contexts
One of the fun things for me about the “Rise of China” and the prominence it continues to gain in Western media, economics and culture, is reconnect...
Gone Fishin'
From a Meiji-period Japanese book on how to paint like a Chinese
Corruption and the Use of Technical Experts in Taiwan 1946
Corruption was one of the biggest target of complaints by supporters and sworn enemies of the Chinese republic in wartime and early postwar China. This was also...
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...
Intellectual property problems
India has recently leased a nuclear attack sub from the Russians. The last thing I rented was a roto-tiller, so I am starting to think I should be shopping in c...
Noted without comment
Some interviews with those involved here.