The Mao Row: Zhang Tielin, Citizenship, and Patriotic Movie Making
It’s amazing what people will choose to [Read More...]
Chinese History
The Burning of the Yuanmingyuan: 150 Years Later
150 years ago this month, troops from an [Read More...]
Hong Xiuquan vs. Jim Morrison: The Taiping Lizard King?
On twitter last week, Shanghai-based author and [Read More...]
Aftershock and the legacy of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
Feng Xiaogang’s new movie 唐山大地震 [Read More...]
On Memories of Violence, Part 3: Opium and the Education of Patriots
This is the last of an informal three-part series [Read More...]
On Memories of Violence, Part 2: Chinese textbooks and questions about the Korean War 60 years later
A 1950 Chinese propaganda poster showing a [Read More...]
Seeking to improve agricultural yields, China looks back to the basics of the Columbian Exchange
There’s an article today in The Boston [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...]
Manchukuo propaganda poster
I’m heading to Changchun this weekend with [Read More...]
More robot errors in Chinese history: Prepare to be “assimilated”
Nothing like a major global event to stimulate [Read More...]
Wolf Totem and Han Nationalism
Somehow in my Christmas vacation travels I missed [Read More...]
Book Review: Standoff at Τiananmen
Part personal memoir, part history, Eddie [Read More...]
The 10-year anniversary of Macau’s handover and the politics of history
If the British takeover of Hong Kong was the [Read More...]
Wang Xiaodong’s straight talk on Tibet
There have been several discussions of the book [Read More...]
Nine nations or nine macroregions?
There’s a map, first posted by the Atlantic [Read More...]