We did it. We finally found a place to live. YJ and I will NOT be sharing a cardboard box in Ritan Park this winter and we’ll be in Beijing starting tomorrow. Also, for the few readers of this blog who don’t also read The Peking Duck, Richard has organized another bloggers’ dinner […]
Entries from February 2007
Back to Beijing…
February 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Life in China
Nixon and Mao: 35 Years Later
February 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments
I guess I’ve been shirking my responsibilities as a blogger lately. This past week marks 35 years since Nixon traveled to China to shake hands with Mao in a meeting that “shook the world.” Up to now, I’ve relegated this monumental event to a series in the “Image of the Day” section of the blog […]
Tags: Chinese History · this week in history
Stuck in the Middle with Wu or "How I stopped hating and learned to love the Ming Dynasty"
February 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Danwei has a great post on why the Ming (1368-1644) is so hot these days. (And they’re not talking about the hobbled Yao, either.) Joel Martinson asks, “Has the Qing been mined to exhaustion as a source for popular culture, or have people simply grown tired of historical teledramas featuring costumed characters wearing queues?”
One of […]
Tags: Chinese History
Another front opens in the China-Korea history wars
February 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Korean textbook writers have fired the latest salvo in the ongoing history wars between the ROK and the PRC. The textbooks have been revised to describe the Korean Bronze Age as starting 1000 years earlier than previous claims. The new textbooks date the beginning of the Bronze Age to about 2000 B.C.E. Further revisions state […]
Tags: Chinese History
New Blog: Mutant Palm
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Davegonetochina, a frequent commenter both here and at The Peking Duck has (re)started his own blog called Mutant Palm. Dave is one of the best writers and certainly one of sharpest historical minds in the Chinese blogosphere. That said, he has a wide range of interests beyond history and is always a good […]
Tags: Uncategorized
Afternoon Tea: Poverty and environmental protection…Lao wai tigers?…CIA agents spend twenty years in Chinese jail
February 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments
One of THE BEST blogs currently in the Chinese blogosphere is China Dialogue. Its excellent collection of Chinese and English articles (with translations) on environmental topics make it the very definition of a must-read blog. In today’s edition, Jiang Gaoming, professor of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Science and vice secretary-general of the UNESCO […]
Tags: Chinese History · morning tea
Tales of Spring Festivals past and stories of Chinese history told from the dinner table
February 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments
Brilliant post on Danwei yesterday in keeping with the theme of Spring Festival. It is an annotated translation of interviews about Spring Festivals of years past collected by oral historian Sang Ye. The stories tell not only of the great hardships (floods, starvation) but also of the little joys (roasting a pig in the communal […]
Tags: Chinese History · Life in Academia · Life in China
Defining terms: China, The West, civilization, and modernity
February 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I’m still busy with Spring Festival matters so I’m taking the lazy way out and cross-posting between The Granite Studio and The Peking Duck. In a week, I’ll be back in Beijing and on a more normal schedule.————————
In the journal First Things, David Gress reviews the new book What is the West? by French philosopher, […]
Tags: Chinese History
Chinese historian: "To exaggerate the size of China’s historical territory is not patriotic" - Full Text
February 20th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Via CDT: The blog Letters from China has a post about an article in the magazine China Review by Fudan University professor Ge Jianxiong. The CDT brief and the Letters from China post both feature the title “Tibet not always a part of China: Chinese Historian.” Taken in context, Professor Ge’s comments are not quite […]
Tags: Chinese History
Spring Festival at The Granite Studio
February 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments
At the risk of slipping into what China Law Blog refers to as a “noodle” blog, I had some thoughts while wandering around Tianjin the last couple of days before the Spring Festival.
YJ’s mother is the sweetest human being on Earth. She really is. But like an evil genie, when you are in her presence […]
Tags: Life in China · sports
