On cultural hybridity, ambassadors, and other low hanging fruit
Chinese media called Amb. Locke a "banana," but Chinese history is filled with those who transcended "identity" http://wp.me/pgK30-1CF [Read More...]
nationalism
Charlie Sheen, the Lady of Loulan, and Alternative Pasts in the PRC today
When faced with an artifact which contradicts accepted narratives, China reacts one of two ways, both of which are similar to how CBS is handling Charlie Sheen. [Read More...]
Criticism, Critical Analysis, and Hurt Feelings
Reading about a new book by Stefan Collini: [Read More...]
The Mao Row: Zhang Tielin, Citizenship, and Patriotic Movie Making
It’s amazing what people will choose to [Read More...]
Being friends with China…
While I am not a lawyer and have very little [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...]
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...]
Ethnic Tensions, Mad Libs, and other dysfunctional relationships
I’m back from Hunan and I’ve got some [Read More...]
More on Paleoanthropology and Chinese nationalism…
A link from reader Scott Loar relating to a [Read More...]
From imperial subjects to national citizens
As regards the situation in Τibet, I’ve [Read More...]
Another front opens in the China-Korea history wars
Korean textbook writers have fired the latest [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...]
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...]
Patriotism: Li Hongzhang and the Foreign Threat
In 1862, three of China’s most prominent [Read More...]