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This is a subject near and dear to my own heart and research. On this date in 1856, French missionary Auguste Chapdelaine (1814-1856) was executed in Guangxi province on the orders of the Xilin County magistrate. Prior to 1860, missionaries were forbidden to travel outside of the ‘treaty ports,’ an injunction that many routinely ignored at their [...] Liu Bang becomes Emperor Han Gaozu On this date in 202 B.C.E., Liu Bang was named emperor of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) following the defeat of his chief rival, Xiang Yu. Previously Liu had used the title “King of the Han,” but after consolidating control over all the territory of the fallen Qin dynasty (221 [...] I have a new post up at The China Beat on Chinese reactions to foreign criticism, “Prejudice Made Plausible: Foreign Criticism and Chinese Sensitivities.” Why does concern about the Olympics, criticism of Chinese government policies, or even a news story about the effect of air pollution on athletes, provoke such a visceral response from many Chinese? Obviously no [...] “People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.” – Somerset Maugham “As a scientific truth, Marxism fears no criticism.” – Mao Zedong Like so many other hasty marriages, by 1956 the relationship between Mao and the Party had begun to suffer from a seven-year itch. Still only in their first decade of rule, the CCP were shocked [...] I have another post, based also on an observation by Liang Qichao, over at The Peking Duck which will likely generate a bit more commentary than this brief meditation on the joys of urban parks, but after a pleasant post-brunch stroll through Ritan Gongyuan, I thought parks to be worth a post of their own: As with [...] I flaked on Froog last night. I was completely beat from a day of translating documents and just didn’t have the energy to go out after midnight to watch the FA Cup game between Manchester United and Arsenal. I have a hunch that I’m in for a raft of crap about how my tepid support for [...] …is up at Frog in a Well, Korea. Many thanks to Konrad Lawson for his hard work putting it together and for the kind words directed at this little hobby of mine. I wanted to particularly call people’s attention to the list of online video and audio history resources, kudos for pulling [...] This week was Valentine’s Day, and no matter what you think of market-driven holidays, it does provide a good occasion to take your wife out for a quiet dinner in an otherwise hectic week. Wanting to avoid the overpriced and crowded Valentine’s Day “specials” at the Chaoyang restaurants, we decided to go local: Dongcheng style, baby. Our [...] Zhou Dynasty founded 557 Professor Li Xiaojiang, of Zhejiang University, is a pioneer of women’s and gender studies in the PRC. She published Renlei jinbu yu funu jiefang (“Human progress and women’s liberation”) in 1983, one of the first scholarly articles in her field ever published in the PRC. In 1988, Professor Li wrote an essay analyzing the situation of [...] This installment of History Lectures Online features a lecture given last year by Tsering Shakya (Tibet: Does history matter?) as part of a conference on Tibetan history sponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Shakya is a professor of contemporary [...] In a 1973 conversation so bizarre that I admit to being a bit skeptical, Mao reportedly asked Henry Kissinger, “Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.” Mao first suggested sending “thousands” of women but as an afterthought proposed “10 million,” drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. Kissinger, [...] The Founding of the Zhou Dynasty Got a little bump in the old site stats this week. Seems a fellow blogger took the time to translate/summarize the post I wrote last week on the CCTV New Year’s Gala into Chinese. (Perspective on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala by an American in Beijing) I looked it over and they got the main points [...] |
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