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
- 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
- In Praise of @BeijingAirWith growing talk about how air quality issue has reached a tipping point in China, it's worth remembering that the US Embassy played a major role in increasing awareness […]Dave Lyons
- Greeted as Liberators
Category Archives: Jottings in other places
Passengers booted off of KLM plane
Flight attendants on international carriers are very particular about safety guidelines. Many upwardly mobile Chinese tend to believe that rules are for other people. Hilarity often ensues. Continue reading
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Sinica Podcast: Revenge of the Call-in Show
Last week I joined Kaiser and Jeremy for the second “Call-in” show in which the Sinica regulars take questions from the listeners. Continue reading
In case you missed it…Yajun writing in The Guardian about the Foshan Hit-and-run Case
Yajun writing in The Guardian last week: “As many Chinese web users have written, it’s possible that there is a kind of sickness in Chinese society that has infected us to our core, and which has been growing for a long time.” Continue reading
Two more posts up at The Atlantic Monthly site
Two new posts at the Atlantic Monthly: an update on renewed calls for demonstrations this weekend in China and a meditation on the meaning of drought in Chinese history. Continue reading
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Two new posts for James Fallows on the Atlantic Monthly site
Today was a busy day. Yajun is by herself in the Beijing office writing a story on new calls for a revolution this weekend even as the PSB is busy rounding up the usual suspects. I was teaching today, 90 … Continue reading
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