Suicide in China
Simon World’s HK Dave has a nice discussion of recent Chinese suicide statistics. The Independent of Britain ran a story on the high suicide rate in China...
Category: General
Seven steps to a better Sichuan. (part 1)
One of the things I came across recently is a 文史资料 piece by 杨芳毓. Yang was a returned student who was a subordinate to the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang in the 1930s...
Open Thread: Election Results
Lots of folks are pretty sure that the success of Koizumi’s rejuvenated LDP in yesterday’s elections [here’s a good summary] means something. ...
For this you need an expert?
[via Simon World] An expert has outlined the six most significant problems facing China, which is to say, facing China’s government: Demographics Energy a...
If you go down in the flood it's gonna be your fault*
Watching the coverage of the New Orleans flood I was reminded of the 1998 Yangtze floods, and it occurred to me that this is yet another example of how China is...
What's Under Tiananmen?
A huge underground complex, according to this site which a student sent me (He’s working on an urban history project). Is this common knowledge among thos...
Viewing Africa from Asia
(This is a comment on Tim Burke’s syllabus on Images of Africa cross-posted from his blog. I am putting it up here to see if anyone has any suggestions on image...
Eat and run
Chinese food culture There is a current series on Amsterdam on Slate where Seth Stevenson suggests that the Dutch are almost never seen walking and eating. Amer...
Nourish the people with cheap diesel
In the post below Jonathan asked how a Confucian China could really be in the future. One possible bit of data comes from this article (From Brad DeLong). NYT r...
Define "Successful"
There are signs that China’s government is going to resurrect Confucianism as a source of social ethics and harmony [via Simon World]. It was, after all, ...
"Big Eyes" and Chinese Children
This is a fascinating essay about a famous Chinese picture known as Big Eyes [Via Simon World]. The followups are fascinating: a bit uncontextualized, but histo...