Recommended Reading- Kunming Protests Met with Heavy Police Presence
- When You Grow Up |An Excerpt from “Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West” by Peter Hessler
- Standing at the Center of China's War of Words - NYTimes.com
- Big Reforms on the Way for China's Economy? - Damien Ma - The Atlantic
- City in Ruins: The Legacy of Sichuan's Big Earthquake - Matt Schiavenza - The Atlantic
- Friendly with the Dalai Lama? Good luck talking with Beijing - by Peter Ford/CSM
- Reform can end loose talk of a Chinese revolution - FT.com //by Deng Yuwen
- Former Red Guard leader calls for Mao's portrait to be removed from Tiananmen - Shanghaiist
- The Trust Deficit - by He Yafei - Foreign Policy (blog)
- The Dalai Lama’s Self-Immolation Dilemma
- The latest on Rectified.name 正名
- Survey Says… OopsCross-posted at the unmothballed Mutant Palm. Max Fisher at The Washington Post ran a blog post last week featuring a world map of “racial tolerance” based on data from the World Values Survey (WVS), and it didn’t take long before the collective peer review power of Tufts University and Reddit found at least two examples of “fat fingers” where a “no, I don’t […]Dave Lyons
- Greeted as LiberatorsI recall it as being Sunday, March 17, 2003, that the administrative liaison called all six foreign English teachers to a meeting in one of our on-campus apartments, but it might have been Monday, since I also remember that the visit was precipitated by President George W. Bush’s 48-hour “High Noon” ultimatum for the Hussein […]Dave Lyons
- Pro wrestling as American soft power so why not Jerry Springer?Would American-style pro wrestling be a hit in China? Maybe. But why not just embrace the stereotype and syndicate old episodes of the Jerry Springer show? […]Jeremiah Jenne
- Willing to Pay – On the Cost of Living in ChinaIn December of last year I made a statement that startled the students enrolled in my Chinese economic development course: that prices overall in China were high relative to prices of goods in the United States. […]Brian Eyler
- Moving the Capital, or, The Unbearable Heaviness of BeijingGovernment officials are planning to move the capital of China to Xinyang, a little city in Henan you’ve never heard of! I know this to be true because some guy on Weibo said it a couple of weeks ago. Tea Leaf Nation has a post up about the chatter. This isn’t particularly new. Wang Ping, […]Brendan O'Kane
- Survey Says… Oops
Category Archives: Chinese History
Patriots Day
A bombing is a tragedy always. But hitting Boston on Patriots Day is a blow to who we are. This is a day when everybody is out in the streets enjoying what is usually one of the first semi-warm days of the year. It’s the beginning of spring.
And some asshole or assholes decided to blow it up. Continue reading
Staying Safe During Spring Festival: A Teacher’s Advice to his Students
Cross-posted at Rectified.name This is an actual email I sent to my students today. I thought it also might be useful to any first time Spring Festival-ers out there. ———————————————– Tonight is the beginning of Spring Festival. It’s one … Continue reading
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Jottings in other places…updates and posts.
I do feel bad that I’ve had to put this site on hiatus for a bit while I focus on two new writing gigs plus finishing up dissertation matters. Fear not, there will be no posts, exclusive to The Granite … Continue reading
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The Musical Manchu Podcast
There’s a new edition of the very cool Sinica Podcast all about Manchus. You’ll just have to picture the look of pain on Kaiser’s face as I burst into song discussing the dilemma of Wu Sangui. Continue reading
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Tagged Historiography, imperialism, Manchus, Musical numbers featuring Chinese historical figures, Qing Dynasty, Sinica Podcast, Wu Sangui
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From the Archives: The Gaokao and Social Mobility
Gaokao season is upon us, but exam hell is nothing new in China. A classic Granite Studio post on the exam system and social mobility then and now. Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese history, Chinese society, Education, Gaokao, Hong Xiuquan, social mobility
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