On Memories of Violence, Part 3: Opium and the Education of Patriots
This is the last of an informal three-part series [Read More...]
History
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...]
Karl Eikenberry and the lessons of Vinegar Joe
President Obama is flying to Asia this week with [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...]
Ethnic Tensions, Mad Libs, and other dysfunctional relationships
I’m back from Hunan and I’ve got some [Read More...]