The Confucius Prize, Chinese blunders, and why you should be wary of sex-crazed wolverines
I got a fuller report of the Confucius Prize [Read More...]
Culture
The Korean War and Xi Jinping
A few months ago I wrote a post about the Korean [Read More...]
The Mao Row: Zhang Tielin, Citizenship, and Patriotic Movie Making
It’s amazing what people will choose to [Read More...]
The Nobel Prize and the CCP’s Ignoble Response
For the CCP, having the first homegrown Chinese Nobel awarded to Charter 08 writer and activist Liu Xiaobo must feel a bit like losing your virginity and waking up the next morning with a scorching case of herpes. [Read More...]
Random Sunday Musings…
Random thoughts after three weeks on the road… [Read More...]
Another Guest post by Yajun: Han Han and the tragedy of the Chinese Educational System
The New York Times published an article about Han [Read More...]
Why oh why do you need to ‘Laowai’?
From a reader in Sichuan: Just an aside (and yes, [Read More...]
Not exactly how you want your top diplomat to respond to a crisis
Apparently Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi [Read More...]
Review: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
I know that when writing reviews it’s [Read More...]
Being friends with China…
While I am not a lawyer and have very little [Read More...]
Review: Peter Hessler’s Country Driving
Ed note: This is a guest post by Zhang Yajun. [Read More...]
Confessions of a Fen(way)qing or “Everything I know about Chinese nationalism I learned as a Boston sports fan”
I want to come clean: I am a Red Sox fenqing. [Read More...]
Noted ‘New Left’ public intellectual Wang Hui accused of plagiarism
Professor Wang Hui of Tsinghua University, the [Read More...]
It’s not “Who do you love?” that matters, but “What do you fear the most?”
In class two weeks ago we were watching the [Read More...]
60th Anniversary Hangover
So it’s October 2nd and Beijing is waking [Read More...]