Saturday night in Beijing: Cool jazz, luke-warm police barricades, and hot chuan’r
Last night YJ and I went to the Forbidden City [Read More...]
Writings
The Sicilian Guide to Chinese History
Scholars in China's history wrote insightful commentaries on this passage to assist future lao wai historians. All of which could be summed up as: "We have 5000 years of history. Call us when you realize you're completely screwed." Trying to make sense of Chinese history sometimes requires asking for a favor from a few fictional Sicilians. [Read More...]
The Manchu language fades into history
Interesting article in yesterday’s NYT on [Read More...]
Taxicab Confessions: Beijing
The Beijing city government is continuing its [Read More...]
Another front opens in the China-Korea history wars
Korean textbook writers have fired the latest [Read More...]
Tales of Spring Festivals past and stories of Chinese history told from the dinner table
Brilliant post on Danwei yesterday in keeping [Read More...]
Defining terms: China, The West, civilization, and modernity
I’m still busy with Spring Festival matters [Read More...]
Chinese historian: "To exaggerate the size of China’s historical territory is not patriotic" – Full Text
Via CDT: Letters from China blogs about an [Read More...]
Spring Festival at The Granite Studio
At the risk of slipping into what China Law Blog [Read More...]
An African-American activist in the court of Mao: The life of Robert F. Williams
In the United States, February is Black History [Read More...]
New Taiwan textbook flap: Forgetting Nanking?
A new textbook flap is brewing on Taiwan, this [Read More...]
Pulp Fiction and Apartment hunting in Beijing
Yeah, this post is a little out of character and [Read More...]
Tianjin Tianhou Palace and religious practice in the PRC
This week as I wait somewhat patiently for my [Read More...]
What does it mean to be "Chinese?"
YJ called me this morning and asked, “What [Read More...]
From the "creative history" files: Genghis Khan was Chinese?
This past autumn, a project funded by the Chinese [Read More...]