Kaiser Kuo has started Sinica, a much-needed podcast series bringing together people from academia, media, business, and other corners of the Sinosphere to discuss the issues of the day. This week’s episode featured Gady Epstein from Forbes Magazine, Tania Branigan of The Guardian, and I me talking a bit about Hu Yaobang, earthquakes, and, apparently, [...]
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Okay, maybe I’m biased since the author of the article is none other than Mrs. Granite Studio, but the article IS good and the topic, the culture of marriage and homosexuality in China, is definitely worth [...] Another week another column for The Global Times. (And in case you’re wondering, my soul feels no less decayed than usual.) This one is on basketball with a little foreign relations thrown in by way of [...] This week I have a column in the recently unveiled English-language edition of The Global Times. This is a new gig and we’ll see how it goes. The first column is my thoughts on Timothy Garton Ash’s recent piece in The Guardian discussing overseas media coverage and China. My personal take is that quality of coverage [...] Okay, so I’m actually getting published somewhere that isn’t on a site I personally run. It’s going to be on paper, with ink, and in libraries and everything. So…yeah, that’s kind of cool for a grad student. China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance is a collection edited by Kate Merkel-Hess and based on the successful [...] I have a review of the film The Passion of the Mao up at The China Beat website. Like Mao’s own revolution, this film has a good beginning but serious problems towards the end. You can check out the full [...] 2009 is shaping up to be a great year. The dissertation is humming along, I’m teaching a class on Modern Chinese history for about 20 American university students studying here in Beijing as well as a seminar on Chinese philosophy. The classes start on Thursday and I’m almost done with finalizing the syllabus (I’m an inveterate, [...] I’ve written a post over at The Peking Duck on the BBC’s decision to broadcast protests should they occur during the Beijing Olympics. Feel free to join in the free-wheeling discussion/online shouting match which is sure [...] In response to a comment left on an earlier post, I’ve posted a new essay at The China Beat on western media bias and the ongoing situation in Τibet. (Mainland link) “It’s true that following the outbreak of unrest on March 14, many in the foreign media dropped the ball, in some cases due to lazy [...] I have a new post up at The China Beat on Chinese reactions to foreign criticism, “Prejudice Made Plausible: Foreign Criticism and Chinese Sensitivities.” Why does concern about the Olympics, criticism of Chinese government policies, or even a news story about the effect of air pollution on athletes, provoke such a visceral response from many Chinese? Obviously no [...] |
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