What happens when you go to your favorite bath house and accidentally break a cup worth at most 10 yuan? What about if the staff of the bath house then tried to shake you down for a 500 yuan ‘replacement cost?’
Well, if you’re the son of an army general in China, you go and get [...]
Battalion in the Bathhouse
September 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Life in China
History and Memory and the Cultural Revolution
September 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Interesting article this morning on the Cultural Revolution and historical memory in the New Republic Online. (Joshua Kurlantzick, “Silent Revolution,” 9/18/06, registration required).
I’ve said this before in other places, but the question of historical memory is tricky because it involves not only abstract concepts such as ’states’ or ‘nations,’ but because–as in the case of [...]
Tags: Chinese History
