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Category: Post-Mao

Anecdotes/China/Post-Mao/visual culture

Chairman Xi serves the people

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Offbeat China has some official cartoons showing Xi Jinping as an ordinary guy who can sit cross-legged just like folks. I guess now that Gary Locke has officia...

China/Nationalism/Post-Mao/Public History/Teaching

Fire and protest in China

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

The Atlantic has a nice set of pictures of the Great Wall up, for your teaching pleasure. The one I found most interesting is this. Is the Great Wall on fire? W...

Anecdotes/China/China-U.S./Current Events/Economics/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...

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...

China/English/Post-Mao/Qing

Save the Pandas

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A couple of years ago before I left for a trip to China an imperial princess told me to get a picture of a panda. I pointed out that there were a zillion pictur...

China/Post-Mao/Qing/Teaching

Teaching Confucianism

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Guess who’s in Bejing! Well, not me anymore since I just left1 I snuck away from my conference for a bit to go to the Confucian temple and the Yonghe temp...

anniversaries/China/Current Events/English/Events/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

The twentieth anniversary

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I have, as it turns out, very little to say that I didn’t say five years ago, but I’ll reproduce it under the fold. Reading this year’s crop o...

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...

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...

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/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...

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...

Books/China/English/Post-Mao

What if?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Geez, now everybody wants to play. On March 7 our own Charles Hayford started the ball rolling by posting on Five things that Didn’t Happen (But Might Hav...

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