China's Traditional, right?
Cultural Revolution? Yan’an Purge? It’s an ugly campaign season, a mix of talent show, debate, old-fashioned politicking and dirty tricks. It’...
Category: Post-Mao
The Chairman is pleased
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...
Guards! Guards!
Security guard at Shanghai Public library (a very nice lady) One thing I’ve been noticing a lot (I’m in Shanghai) is that China may be the best-guarded s...
Bo Yibo 1908-2007
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...
The Shanghai Taxicab test
Go look at this. Not much to say, other than that it seems to confirm that the Chinese are starting to catch up to the South Koreans in becoming video game fana...
A Guokui for the contemporary masses
I was checking through CDT the other day (as I do when I’m in the mood to circumvent certain walls that surround my current location) and came across the ...
Tibet by rail
It has been in the news of late that China has built a rail line to Tibet. It cost $3.2 billion, and the train cars have to be pressurized, but you can now get ...
Forty Years Ago
The New York Times has a short interview with two women who played pivotal roles in the Cultural revolution NIE YUANZI was an ambitious college professor whose ...
Bashing Mao Bashing
My one regret, really, of not going to the AAS this year, was that I could not go to the 20th Century China Forum round table on Chang and Halliday’s Mao:...