I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the history department at a large public university in Northern California. Currently I am in Beijing and Tianjin doing archival research focusing on anti-foreignism and colonialism in the coastal (’treaty port’) cities of the Qing Empire.
Email and correspondence can be sent to granitestudio (at) hotmail.com.
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1 9527 // Jan 24, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Good luck!
2 Tan // Feb 11, 2008 at 12:42 am
:)Interesting comment about our Spring Festival Gala. I really want to know: are you totally understand the whole Gala, especially some language performances like “xiaopin”"xiangsheng”.
Good luck in China.
3 Jeremiah // Feb 11, 2008 at 10:06 am
Tan,
As a general rule, I understand most of it, but obviously somebody who is learning a language can’t appreciate humor involving word play (whether it’s 马三立 or “Who’s on First?”) the same way a native speaker could.
Thanks for stopping by.
4 jane // Feb 12, 2008 at 7:56 pm
hei,appreciated you watched the China Gala as Chinese ppl.
Your comments really interested .
Good luck to you!
5 Jeremiah // Feb 13, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Jane,
Cheers and thanks for stopping by.
6 Teluoyi_in_SF // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:01 am
I haven’t got time to read all your blogs. Cross-cultural communication is always interesting in that it, to a certain extent, serves as a mirror, if not without distortions, for natives to see their culture and personality reflected in a non-native’s eye. I’m curious to read your thesis “‘The Right Arm of the Europeans’: Colonialism, Violence, and Identity in Tianjin, 1870.” I bet you will have a different intepretation from what we, being subjected to Western colonialism and forced trade (as made clear through the Sino-British Opium War), learned in our history class. Keep up good work.
7 Jeremiah // Feb 14, 2008 at 8:51 am
Teluoyi,
Actually, my perspective is probably closer to the one you learned in class than that in previous Western scholarship on the subject, and thanks for the encouraging words. Cheers.
8 Franklin // Mar 5, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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9 ss // Mar 14, 2008 at 4:44 pm
hi, just curious, the materials you need for your research, are they in Manchu language or traditional Chinese or both? thanks…
10 Jeremiah // Mar 15, 2008 at 4:42 am
Most of the materials are in classical Chinese, or the variant that was used in the late Qing. I’m currently studying Manchu as well because I know that do research on the Qing, Manchu language archival materials are absolutely invaluable. It’s a tough language to learn, but I’m making (slow but steady) progress.
Thanks for asking.
11 ss // Mar 16, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I see… thanks and good luck with everything!
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