Interesting article in yesterday’s NYT on the Manchu language in China (hat tip: Kate Merkel-Hess). In the village of Sanjiazi, in Heilongjiang near the border with Inner Mongolia, 18 residents, all octogenarians, represent China’s last native speakers of Manchu.
With the passing of these villagers, Manchu will also die, experts say. All that will be [...]
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NPR has a piece in this Monday’s (3/19) Morning Edition about the last few women in China with bound feet. The practice was first banned in 1912. Several other attempts to eradicate the custom followed. In the wake of the both the 1927 Northern Expedition and the 1949 establishment of the PRC, officials and cadres [...]
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