Category: China

Via Reason, an article on the new statue of Bruce Lee that has been put up in Bosnia. The basic idea was the that organizers wanted to be postmodern and subvert...

Tim Burke has been blogging on moral panics in the context of oral sex, rape, and children’s television. Reading his stuff I was struck by the most famous...

In Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present* I found the story of Xu Chaolong.(p.194) I found it interesting because of what it ...

It has been suggested to me that it may be a good time to begin a new discussion of the original Menzies topic, which was first posted in January and has now ga...

Via Gusts of Popular Feeling I found this site by John Dower where he uses Japanese woodblocks to teach a number of things about the Japanese history of the war...

The importation of new professions into China has always been something that has interested me a great deal. Perhaps the most interesting of these is academics,...

Qi Fang, China’s contestant for the Miss Universe pagent, has resigned. (abdicated?) The China Daily story linked to above gives most of the sordid detail...

From IHT via some blog I forgot, here is a little review of a book on “Chick Lit” Chick Lit is a marketing category full of books about young women ...

From Granta via Reason here is a little thing by Lindsey Hilsum on Chinese businesses in Africa. It’s really just a little journalistic squib mostly about...

I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...