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Category: Maoist era (1949-1976)

1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...

Language/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Pinyin is coming to get you!

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a CIA report on Pinyin from, I think, 1961 or so. They lay out the history of pinyin as a method of romanization (or latinization) of Chinese, and from ...

anniversaries/Authors/China/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Orwell and China

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been meaning to blog about Ibisbill’s post on George Orwell and China, but as I have not come up with anything to say, I suppose I should just toss...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Media

Socialism is good

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Finally. Just in time for the end of the semester. I managed to find an on-line version of Socialism Is Good. Well, not just a version. There are lots of fairly...

Books/China/English/Intellectual/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Sinology and Simon Leys

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

New York Review of Books Classics has re-printed Simon Leys’ The Hall of Uselessness: Selected Essays. This makes him the first Sinologist to crack the NY...

Archaeology/China/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

What if it's a fake? What if it isn't?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Jeremiah Jenne pointed me to this most wonderful bit of French nonsense: Jean Levi’s claim that the terracotta army is a modern forgery. These famous clay...

Archaeology/Books/China/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

Monumental Histories

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...

China/China-Russia/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)

The Most Effective Kind of Education

Posted on July 4, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

While there are many historical problems worthy of exploring in the study of history, I personably believe that one of the most important is an attempt to under...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Public History/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Private views of Chinese history

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Recently I went to the Jianchuan museums, which are in Anren, just outside Chengdu. It is an interesting place first because it is huge, financed by mogul Fan J...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)

China, where totalitarianism works

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Daniel Drezner has been watching the coverage of the current show trials in Iran, and points out that they are not working very well in cowing the population, a...

Archaeology/China/Economics/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Modern Archaeology

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Great Leap Forward era backyard iron furnaces have been unearthed [via] and there is discussion about whether to preserve them as historical evidence, even a cu...

Authors/Books/China/English/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Translation

Transvestite chickens late at night

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I’ve been reading Cao Naiqian‘s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night. It’s an odd sort of book, and you can see wh...

China/Gender/Maoist era (1949-1976)

My Dear Revolutionary Comrade-in-arms

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Sina has a collection of Chinese love-letters going back to the 50s (via CDT) The ones from the 60’s and 70’s are the most interesting. Lots of Maoi...

Articles/China/Civil War/English/General/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Taiwan

Revising history: Brief notes

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Quick hits: It’s one of the most difficult periods of modern history to teach, and I love using primary sources for the tough times, so I’m always g...

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