Beijing taxis and the directionally challenged…progress made?
Today I flagged a cab to head over to the new US [Read More...]
Articles by Jeremiah
The Historical Record for April 15, 2009: The Death of Hu Yaobang
Today marks 20 years since the death of Hu [Read More...]
Bad History: Qianlong, Xinjiang, and Western Aesthetics
I’m used to having history get mangled in [Read More...]
Lonely Boys and Losers: Are we overstating the fenqing phenomenon?
This post is a response to two essays written [Read More...]
Pulp Fiction and Apartment Hunting in Beijing
Ed note: I’ve posted this a couple of times [Read More...]
Dude, who moved my lizard shit?
This has nothing to do with China, but if [Read More...]
Moderate Voices on the Sino-US Relationship
It’s probably fair to say that the [Read More...]
Cai Yuanpei and Charter 08
Today is the birthday of Cai Yuanpei [Read More...]
G. William Skinner: A Personal Remembrance
I’ve been waiting to write this post as I [Read More...]
The Historical Record for November 14, 2008: Arsenic and the Old Buddha
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of [Read More...]
Liu Shaoqi, Birthdays, and Cruel Irony
It’s one of those wacky days in Chinese [Read More...]
Happy Hua Guofeng Day 2008: The first in the P.H. (post-Hua) Era
As many, if not both my readers know, each [Read More...]
The perils of studying the Qing
Via Danwei: The Beijing News October 7, 2008 Yan [Read More...]
Teaching Τibet and “The Truth”
The China Beat has had a month-long series on [Read More...]
On railways and history and the railroading of history
The building of railways in China has had a [Read More...]