Live Blogging: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
YJ is out running around the city as Tianjin’s [Read More...]
Archives
Helen Couchman’s Workers
Beijing-based artist, Granite Studio friend, and [Read More...]
100 Years of Humiliation, One Shining Moment
“100 Years of [Read More...]
Things I love about Beijing…
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More on Paleoanthropology and Chinese nationalism…
A link from reader Scott Loar relating to a [Read More...]
Mao and Chiang Kai-shek are walking down the street, and Mao says…
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Western media bias on Τibet?
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Voices from China’s Past: Zhang Binglin on Manchu Assimilation
One of the more persistent myths of Qing dynasty [Read More...]
From imperial subjects to national citizens
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Beijing and Baseball: Security, Ties, Taiwan, and “Take me out to the Ballgame”
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45 Years of Lei Feng
On this date in 1963, Mao Zedong launched the [Read More...]
The Historical Record for March 1: Zhang Heng’s Seismometer
Zhang Heng (78-139) was quite the Han dynasty [Read More...]
Mao and the Marriage Counselor: The Hundred Flowers Movement of 1957
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On Arsenal and the butterfly effect….
I flaked on Froog last night. I was completely [Read More...]
Voices from China’s Past: Li Xiaojiang on women in Chinese society
Professor Li Xiaojiang, of Zhejiang University, [Read More...]