Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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China Anti-spitting Campaign (c. 1950)

February 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I wrote a post about “Etiquette and Modernity” last month and mentioned a clip from the 1950s which Blogger Andrew Lih has now put on YouTube. It’s just another example of how the recent and very public “manners” campaigns have a long track record in China. (Coincidentally, today is the the 11th of the month [...]

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Tags: Chinese History · Life in China