花崗齋文集 (The Archives)

A few of my favorites:

• The foolish old man who wanted to move mountains (A little bit about my moniker)
• The Ming Amateur Ideal and the Art Factories of Shenzhen or “Why Mo Shilong would probably carry a Prada man-purse”
• Christmas and cultural imperialism: Chinese PhD attempts to organize boycott
• You are not a REAL American, scenes from laowai street theater
• Pulp Fiction and Apartment hunting in Beijing (Probably my all-time favorite post)
• An African-American activist in the court of Mao: The life of Robert F. Williams
• Stuck in the Middle with Wu or “How I stopped hating and learned to love the Ming Dynasty”
• The Sicilian Guide to Chinese History
• Come back Hua Guofeng, all is forgiven
• Why Hua Guofeng matters…no, seriously
• On Skulls, Origins, and Race in China
• Who’s the most important Chinese historical figure whom most people have never heard of?
• Mao and the Marriage Counselor: The Hundred Flowers Movement of 1957
• From imperial subjects to national citizens (Written in response to the riots in Lhasa in March 2008)
• 100 Years of Humiliation, One Shining Moment
• Victims: History, Perception, and the East-West Divide
• Teaching Τibet and “The Truth”
• George W. Bush, Qianlong, and the end of an era
• Live Blogging: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (Me. At my snarkiest.)
• Democracy, Ethics, and China’s post-Olympic’s challenge (my response to Daniel A. Bell)
• Cai Yuanpei and Charter 08
• Yue Fei, Qin Gui, and Patriotism in the Song
• On the Wrong Side of History
• Zhou Enlai, the Qingming Festival, and the spring demonstrations of 1976
• Ethnic Tensions, Mad Libs, and other dysfunctional relationships (written in response to the July 2009 riots in Urumqi)
• 60th Anniversary Hangover (Probably the moment where I, uh, “jumped the snark.”)
• It’s not “Who do you love?” that matters, but “What do you fear the most?”