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Category: Countryside

China/Countryside/Current Events/English/Public History/Qing

History and tourism in China

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

China File has been following the attempts of the town of Bishan  to make itself into a tourist destination. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in China, and...

Books/China/Countryside/Culture/English/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Rustic poetry

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The contrast between the center and the periphery is a common theme in Chinese literature. To be an official sent from the capital to the provinces, or a sent-d...

China/Countryside/Economics

Why can't an economist be more like a(n) historian?

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue are all economists and they are doing interesting work on rural-urban migration in China. Given that China has better reg...

China/Countryside/Sino-Japanese Wars

Working to Protect Your Human Rights

Posted on February 4, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

In Communist controlled “liberated districts” of Japanese occupied China, your local treason elimination squad was directed to safeguard your human ...

China/Countryside

Gone Fishin'

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

From a Meiji-period Japanese book on how to paint like a Chinese

Articles/China/Countryside/Japan/Ming/Pigs/Social History/visual culture

Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map

Posted on July 2, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...

Books/China/Countryside/Republican/Teaching

poor peasants

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

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...

China/Countryside/English/Republican/visual culture

Summer must be here

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

People seem to be too busy doing nothing to post much, but what good is technology if you don’t use it? By a mountain path. Few guests. A huqin‘s so...

Archaeology/China/Countryside/Current Events/English

A stupid idea that will never work

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...

China/China-U.S./Countryside/Historiography/Revolution/Social History

When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant

Posted on February 25, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 36 Comments

After Mao Zedong died in 1976, they put his body on display in one of those see-through coffins which Lenin made popular. Shortly after, the NBC evening news co...

Articles/China/Chinese/Countryside/Pigs/Republican/Social History

Pigs, Shit, and Chinese History, Or Happy Year of the Pig

Posted on January 28, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the y...

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