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Sorry, no Chinese history content here. I stumbled across a couple of cool blog tools and thought I would try them out. One of them is Touch Graph The applet ge...
Category: China
Battle of Qufu
I am somewhat fond of public history despite knowing nothing about it. So, one of the things I am assigning to my Modern China students is Dahpon David Ho‘...
Old folks at home
Man with bird in Nanjing Or actually old folks out on the street. I knew that lots of old Chinese people kept birds, and that taking birds for a walk was a popu...
Tour China from home
Via Easternity and Danwei, Cao Fei’s Second Life RMB City. If you want a nice view of what China is today, this is it. You would of course get a better vi...
Learning about Tibet IV
Lots of stuff out there on Tibet. Maybe most interesting to me is the blog of 江达三, a 72 year old former PLA flyer who spent time in Tibet and is now blogging ab...
Do you suffer from insomnia?
If so this may be for you. I did a talk about my book for our library and they have taped it and put it on-line.
Learning about Tibet III
Having learned any number of things about Tibet recently I thought I would learn some more, and thankfully the new Modern China (34.2) arrived with an interesti...
Readings on Tibet
I’ve posted links to interesting recent articles on Tibet on a blog for my teachers’ workshop, ASIA: LEARNING FROM, TEACHING ABOUT.
Unity across the Taiwan strait
Via China Digital Times a You Tube presentation for foreigners who know f****1 all about Chinese history explaining why Tibet was, is and always will be part of...
poor peasants
In Modern China class we will be talking about Communists and their analysis of China’s social classes. What is a poor peasant? I will give them the stand...
Help me pick some books
Book order forms for the Fall are on my desk again, and again I am going to ask for any advice people might feel like sending my way. The two Asia courses I am ...
Smoking in China
A good book answers your questions. A really good book answers questions you had not thought of yet. Apparently Tim Brook’s Vermeer’s Hat is a reall...
'China Network' at Cambridge
If you will forgive the promotion, this may be of interest to other Frogs… Cambridge University’s humanities centre (CRASSH) recently received fundi...
Conceptual art
Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu’s “Twin Pines, Level Distance,” something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no mor...