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Asian American/China/Class/Culture/English/Social History

From all the junks, the one I need more is music

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Slate has a piece up on the Asian-ization of Western classical music. It’s more historically informed than you might think for a Slate piece, although it ...

Books/China/Class/Literature/Translation

Exporting Maoism

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

In my Intro to Asian Studies class this semester I am teaching Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl From the Coast The story is a fictionalized account of his...

China/Class/English/Post-Mao

Guards! Guards!

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

  Security guard at Shanghai Public library (a very nice lady) One thing I’ve been noticing a lot (I’m in Shanghai) is that China may be the best-guarded s...

China/Class/Economics/General/visual culture

Electrons, the ultimate export

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Preview of a documentary on gold-mining in China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 I hope my son never sees this post, which suggests that you really c...

China/Class/General/Labor/Post-Mao

Why is China so clean?

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A long time ago I realized the street litter in poor countries is different than that in rich ones. In part this is because the poor countries seem to hire more...

China/Class/General/Labor

Labor and the public sphere

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via H-Asia I found China Law Digest, which seems to have a lot of interesting stuff. One of these is a story about migrant laborers in Fujian organizing themsel...

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