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 [...]
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On this date in 1912, Yuan Shikai produced an official edict proclaiming the abdication of the boy emperor Puyi, marking the official end of the Qing Dynasty. The crafty Yuan had been playing the revolutionaries off against the court and biding his time to maximize his personal power, so when the revolutionaries agreed to let [...] The China Beat boasts an impressive club of historians and despite the contemporary focus of the site, history is never far from the contributors’ minds. Fittingly, Kate Merkel-Hess posts “5 Chinese historical events that don’t get much attention” with some interesting and well-argued choices. Definitely worth checking out. (PRC link.) |
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