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Category: Maoist era (1949-1976)

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/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...

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

Lost Stories

Posted on November 24, 2008 by gina / 11 Comments

I recently came across a book called Some of Us[i], recommended to me by one of the contributing authors, Dr. Jiang Jin. The book is a collection of memoirs and...

China/English/Identity/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Nationalism/Public History/Republican/visual culture

Show me the money

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 10 Comments

From the Times via CDT an article about a group of Chinese intellectuals who are asking for some new people to be put on Chinese currency. This is actually a bi...

Authors/Books/China/Culture/Current Events/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Teaching/Translation

New Chinese Literature

Posted on May 4, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times has published three reviews of new Chinese works in translation: Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (pen na...

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

Freedom of speech in China

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 22 Comments

Danwei has some links on the current war over free speech in China. The whole thing was sparked by an April 3 editorial in Southern Metropolis Daily. The author...

China/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Battle of Qufu

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I am somewhat fond of public history despite knowing nothing about it. So, one of the things I am assigning to my Modern China students is Dahpon David Ho‘...

China/China-U.S./Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette

Posted on January 8, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 6 Comments

The lively and informed blog, Jottings from the Granite Studio, January 8 has a well turned piece “This date in history: The Death of Zhou Enlai.” The piece sho...

China/China-Japan/English/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao

Great Moments in International Journalism

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Philip J. Cunningham at Informed Comment Global Affairs has a great post about Chinese State TV and their Dialogue commentary program. I’m just going to e...

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

Non-commercial emotion

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

James Fallows recommends the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center. At least as a web museum it is not as good as Stefan Landsberger’s I did find the intr...

Archaeology/China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Public History

China reconstructs

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 8 Comments

One thing about China is that they are always re-building historical sites. Here are some guys building a new…something…. at the old Ming palace in ...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Public History

The Chairman is pleased

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

How is the cult of Mao doing? Well, this is a statue of the Great Helmsman at Yuhuashan in Nanjing. It is part of a rather temporary-looking exhibit on his life...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao

Bo Yibo 1908-2007

Posted on January 16, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Bo Yibo has died He is probably best known today for being the father of one of the leading members of the so-called Prince’s faction and current Minister...

China/General/Intellectual/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Republican

Chairman Mao’s teacher

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A nice article in Modern China on Mao’s teacher Yang Changji. The article draws on Yeh Wen-Hsin’s work on the provincial background of many of the second group ...

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