Zhou Confucianism? Ming Quality Control?
In an absolutely fascinating article on the modern petition redress system1 focusing on attempts by regional officials to prevent petitions from reaching a nati...
Category: Current Events
Heartland Mandala
I was surprised to learn, about ten days ago, that PSU was going to be hosting a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks creating a sand mandala. This is a touring comp...
Confucian liberalism
CDT has some information on Yang Shiqun, the Chinese professor who has been accused by two of his students of saying counterrevolutionary things in class and is...
Charter 08 and reading about human rights
The big news from China is the release of Charter 08 The charter is being released now because it is the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaratio...
Sino-Soviet Nuclear Collaboration Revisionism?
In a review of Thomas C. Reed, and Danny B. Stillman‘s new book, The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, William Broad...
奥巴马mania
I just joined this website, but I was surprised to see no post about the American elections in China (perhaps I found it surprising because it has been so press...
December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few China bits. Even a few from elsewhere! Also lots of other neat stuff.
Appel de Blois
European historians are appealing for support in resisting laws that will criminalize historical inquiry. You can find the text of their appeal and a link to an...
Chinese Rough Music
China Beat has a post up from Kate Merkel-Hess on the latest evolution of the “human flesh search engine”, which can be described as Chinese netizen...
Collecting Songs
In Imperial China, emperors and other high officials sometimes disguised themselves as commoners and mingled with the ordinary folk to learn what they were real...
What can China learn from the Jews
Via 鲍昆 an interview with Lydia Liu1 Liu’s work has to to with the difficulties of cultural contact and translation in the 19th century, so it is nice to s...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”
Do Chinese lie? The Western media have jumped on recent revelations about doctoring the Olympic opening ceremonies and allegations about false ages of their gym...
Hua Guofeng: Hats Off!
While we wait for Jeremiah at Jottings from the Granite Studio to say something substantive, I’d like to put in another good word for Hua, the man with th...
Hua Guofeng
It is not often that a historic figure like Chairman Hua leaves us, and while I can’t possibly compete with Jeremiah in my reverence for the red, red (wel...
Old Friends in New Contexts
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...