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China/Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Ming/Post-Mao

Zhou Confucianism? Ming Quality Control?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

In an absolutely fascinating article on the modern petition redress system1 focusing on attempts by regional officials to prevent petitions from reaching a nati...

China/Current Events/English/Ethnic Minorities/Religion/Tibet

Heartland Mandala

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

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...

China/Current Events/English

Confucian liberalism

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 12 Comments

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...

China/Current Events/English

Charter 08 and reading about human rights

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

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...

China/China-Russia/Current Events/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Science and Technology

Sino-Soviet Nuclear Collaboration Revisionism?

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

China/Current Events/Foreign Views/Newspapers/Post-Mao

奥巴马mania

Posted on December 4, 2008 by gina / 5 Comments

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...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Web Sites and Resources

December History Carnival Posted

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few China bits. Even a few from elsewhere! Also lots of other neat stuff.

China/Current Events/Historiography

Appel de Blois

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

China/Current Events/English

Chinese Rough Music

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

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...

China/Current Events/Literature/Post-Mao

Collecting Songs

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

China/Current Events/English/Historiography

What can China learn from the Jews

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 8 Comments

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...

China/China-U.S./Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Taiwan

Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”

Posted on August 28, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

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...

China/Current Events/Post-Mao

Hua Guofeng: Hats Off!

Posted on August 21, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

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...

China/Current Events/Post-Mao

Hua Guofeng

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

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...

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