Aftershock and the legacy of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
Feng Xiaogang’s new movie 唐山大地震 [Read More...]
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Why oh why do you need to ‘Laowai’?
From a reader in Sichuan: Just an aside (and yes, [Read More...]
Not exactly how you want your top diplomat to respond to a crisis
Apparently Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi [Read More...]
Review: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
I know that when writing reviews it’s [Read More...]
Being friends with China…
While I am not a lawyer and have very little [Read More...]
Review: Peter Hessler’s Country Driving
Ed note: This is a guest post by Zhang Yajun. [Read More...]
On Memories of Violence, Part 3: Opium and the Education of Patriots
This is the last of an informal three-part series [Read More...]
A Chinese perspective on crime, race, and the recent demonstrations in Paris
Ed note: This is a guest post by Zhang Yajun, [Read More...]
On Memories of Violence, Part 2: Chinese textbooks and questions about the Korean War 60 years later
A 1950 Chinese propaganda poster showing a [Read More...]
Seeking to improve agricultural yields, China looks back to the basics of the Columbian Exchange
There’s an article today in The Boston [Read More...]
Confessions of a Fen(way)qing or “Everything I know about Chinese nationalism I learned as a Boston sports fan”
I want to come clean: I am a Red Sox fenqing. [Read More...]
Manchukuo propaganda poster
I’m heading to Changchun this weekend with [Read More...]
More robot errors in Chinese history: Prepare to be “assimilated”
Nothing like a major global event to stimulate [Read More...]
Noted ‘New Left’ public intellectual Wang Hui accused of plagiarism
Professor Wang Hui of Tsinghua University, the [Read More...]
Wolf Totem and Han Nationalism
Somehow in my Christmas vacation travels I missed [Read More...]