Chinese – Frog in a Well

Classical Chinese for Everyone

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Looking for a fun book? Look no further! Bryan Van Norden’s Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners is it. This is a book for anyon...

anniversaries/China/Chinese/Current Events/English/Events/Humor/Nationalism

PRC National Anthem

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on October 1st, my friend Carsey Yee has sent another video: The Two Chinese...

China/Chinese/Current Events/English/Language

Old Friends in New Contexts

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

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...

China/Chinese/Diaspora/Gender/Identity/Post-Mao

中华文化永恒精神价值

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

早报有好奇怪的文件关于中国得婚姻制度。作者叶鹏飞谈到中国的离婚率上升。在一部分时一个建立在史学研究基础上的观点。他说道国外婚姻制度的改变，特别斯泰芬尼·库茨（Stephanie Coontz) 的书。对我来说这是很有意思，因为在美国的报纸如果有一事可以说有”永恒精神“就是我们的婚姻制度。但是，他也说道中国文化的...

China/Chinese/General/Language/Post-Mao

他媽的

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

I caught a couple of episodes of Firefly on TV a bit back. The thing that hooked me was that some of the characters were swearing in Chinese, of a sort. The ser...

China/Chinese/General/War

One for the military historians

Posted on May 8, 2006 by katrina / 0 Comment

In preparing the Asian History Carnival, a variety of things turned up in my inbox – in between some very tempting deals on pharmaceuticals. Today I recei...

China/Chinese/General/Language

danger + opportunity

Posted on December 16, 2005 by katrina / 7 Comments

This entry on pinyin.info looks at the misunderstanding of the construction of characters. This tendency – particularly among the writers of motivational/...

Books/China/Chinese/Civil War/English/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

7/7 and a Wartime Dictionary

Posted on July 7, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

While I’m spending the summer studying Korean in Seoul, one of the books I brought with me for some recreational reading is a Chinese wartime dictionary (...