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
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- 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
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September Posts at Rectified.name
Two new posts over at partner site Rectified.name: Dude, Have you Seen my Emperor? – “Have you seen my once-in-a-decade-transition leader? If so, please send him home. You can’t imagine Hu’s missing him since Wen.” Seriously, Hooked on Nationalism - Frankly, … Continue reading
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New post at Rectified.Name: “The Soft Power Own Goal: China, Leeds, and Mad Men”
This is China at its soft power worst, scoring goals in its own net and making it exponentially harder to convince the rest of the world that the country is being run by grown-ups. Continue reading
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New Post at Rectified.Name: “On Jubilees and Anniversaries”
The recent celebrations for QE2′s Diamond Jubilee and a certain poignant anniversary got me thinking about the intersection of history, memory, and celebrations. With a little detour to the Tibetan plateau thrown in just so I could hit the trifecta of “Things To Write About Before Setting Your Visa on Fire.” Continue reading
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New Post at Rectified.name: “On the Yak Trail in Southwest China”
A new post over at Rectified.name about my latest trip to Yunnan. Sad to see how much that province has changed over the past decade. While tourism brings many benefits to local communities, the effects of so many people trampling … Continue reading
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