Comments on: Friday Round-up: Tibet, Tang Dynasty music (Sorry Kaiser…not that Tang Dynasty), Merchant Ships, Peking Man, Charter 08 Fallout, Athletes’ Ages, and more. http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: xmu http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-13084 xmu Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:39:36 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=952#comment-13084 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">[blog,XMU] Friday Round-up: Tibet, Tang Dynasty music (Sorry Kaiser…not that ...: Pop into the Museum .. http://tinyurl.com/b6oyog</span></span> [blog,XMU] Friday Round-up: Tibet, Tang Dynasty music (Sorry Kaiser…not that …: Pop into the Museum .. http://tinyurl.com/b6oyog

]]> By: wu ming http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11572 wu ming Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:56:48 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=952#comment-11572 nothing would expand china's soft power like funding a bunch of tenure track positions on chinese language, history and culture. hint, hint. nothing would expand china’s soft power like funding a bunch of tenure track positions on chinese language, history and culture. hint, hint.

]]> By: Pffefer http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11566 Pffefer Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:34:34 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=952#comment-11566 " black slaves were traded via arabs to South China centuries before Europeans got in the game. Pop into the Museum of Anthropology at Xiamen University and you’ll find that they’re quite proud of that fact." The stark difference is the Chinese did not actively seek out to capture and import black slaves while the Europeans... you know what. ” black slaves were traded via arabs to South China centuries before Europeans got in the game. Pop into the Museum of Anthropology at Xiamen University and you’ll find that they’re quite proud of that fact.”

The stark difference is the Chinese did not actively seek out to capture and import black slaves while the Europeans… you know what.

]]> By: Chris Hearne http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11548 Chris Hearne Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:56:52 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=952#comment-11548 From the article about learning Chinese... "At present, the basis for the studying or teaching of Chinese is very weak, unlike for English, French or Spanish, which have been popularized for hundreds of years," said Xu Lin, director of the Confucius Institute Headquarters." Maybe that means they'll start producing useful Chinese textbooks instead the nonsense on the market nowadays? The best textbook series I ever used was the first one I ever had when I started studying in the US (http://www.amazon.com/Integrated-Chinese-Level-Part-Mandarin_chinese/dp/0887272630). Not that it was terribly good, but light years ahead of the stuff they produce on the mainland that I've seen. From the article about learning Chinese…

“At present, the basis for the studying or teaching of Chinese is very weak, unlike for English, French or Spanish, which have been popularized for hundreds of years,” said Xu Lin, director of the Confucius Institute Headquarters.”

Maybe that means they’ll start producing useful Chinese textbooks instead the nonsense on the market nowadays? The best textbook series I ever used was the first one I ever had when I started studying in the US (http://www.amazon.com/Integrated-Chinese-Level-Part-Mandarin_chinese/dp/0887272630). Not that it was terribly good, but light years ahead of the stuff they produce on the mainland that I’ve seen.

]]> By: stuart http://granitestudio.org/2009/03/13/friday-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11543 stuart Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:07:45 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=952#comment-11543 "everything europeans think they did first, someone else has pulled off earlier, i tells ya." Too true; black slaves were traded via arabs to South China centuries before Europeans got in the game. Pop into the Museum of Anthropology at Xiamen University and you'll find that they're quite proud of that fact. “everything europeans think they did first, someone else has pulled off earlier, i tells ya.”

Too true; black slaves were traded via arabs to South China centuries before Europeans got in the game. Pop into the Museum of Anthropology at Xiamen University and you’ll find that they’re quite proud of that fact.

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