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Category: Identity

China/General/Identity/Intellectual/Literature/Public History/Republican

We’re not in Hebei anymore, Toto

Posted on July 16, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

A Chinese Peasant Pearl Buck has been getting a good deal more attention in China of late. Part of it is no doubt the fact that she wrote about China and won th...

China/Classics/Gender/General/Identity

Happy Father's Day

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There are lots of Western holidays that don’t translate well to China. Christmas shows up a bit, especially since all the ornaments are made in Asia, but ...

China/General/Identity/Maoist era (1949-1976)/visual culture

Chairman Mao is like Jesus to us

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Not really related to anything, but I found it interesting. Chinese students in New Zealand have been protesting this image of Chairman Mao from a student newsp...

Books/China/English/Identity

Other Well-dwellers

Posted on February 23, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 13 Comments

Some years ago while studying in Beijing I bought a good number of nicely bound hardback volumes from a series entitled the “Library of Chinese Classics&#...

China/General/Hong Kong/Identity

Cantonese is Dying! (in L.A.)

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

A not-too well informed article from the L.A. Times lamenting the decline of lively, slang-filled Cantonese in favor of the polite and dignified Mandarin. Obvio...

China/Diaspora/General/Identity

Viewing Africa from Asia

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

(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...

China/Diplomacy/Economics/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity

Mickey Mouse in China

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There are some interesting articles in the current Modern China, and the one I would like to comment on at present is “Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northw...

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