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- 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
- The latest on Rectified.name 正名
- 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
- In Praise of @BeijingAirWith growing talk about how air quality issue has reached a tipping point in China, it's worth remembering that the US Embassy played a major role in increasing awareness […]Dave Lyons
- Greeted as Liberators
Tag Archives: Chiang Kai-shek
Why do we call it “Spring Festival”?
Has there ever been a blander term than “Spring Festival”? For thousands of years it was simply the New Year, at least according to the moon. So what changed? (Cross-posted on Rectified.name) Continue reading
Envy and Antipathy: Chinese historical attitudes toward Japan
The roots of modern day attitudes toward Japan in China have roots dating back over a century, characterized by a mix of envy and antipathy. Continue reading
Posted in Chinese History
Tagged Boxer Rebellion, Chiang Kai-shek, Japan Earthquake, Kang Youwei, Sino-Japanese Relations, Sino-Japanese War, Song Jiaoren, Sun Yat-sen, Tongmenghui, Treaty of Shimonoeki, World War II, Zhang Xueliang, Zhou Enlai
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Another CIA/NSC Archive Film: “China: The Roots of Madness” (1967)
Another classic attempt to “explain and understand” China from the CIA/NSC archives, this one is like some sort of unholy mash-up of John King Fairbank, Max Weber, Henry Luce, Edward Said, and the KMT propaganda department…but there is some useful … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese History, Voices from China's Past
Tagged 1911 Revolution, archival footage, Boxer Rebellion, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Civil War, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese history films, Chinese Revolution, CIA, Cultural Revolution, Henry Luce, Kuomintang, Mao Zedong, May Fourth Era, NSC, Opium War, Pearl Buck, Quaintly Orientalist Views of Modern Chinese History, Sun Yat-sen, Theodore White, Warlord Era
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The Historical Record for April 12: The Shanghai Purge of 1927
During the 1920s the CCP operated from within the KMT party apparatus. Part of this was the doings of the Comintern, but it also made sense from a party development point of view. The KMT gave the CCP cover to … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese History, The Historical Record
Tagged CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, KMT, Northern Expedition, Republican Period, Shanghai, This date in history
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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 documentary series China From the Inside when one of my students asked, with some reason, that if there was so much hardship and discontent why does the CCP enjoy such broad … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese History, Chinese politics
Tagged Censorship, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese politics, Cultural Revolution, human rights
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