Liu Xiaobo And The Nobel Peace Prize: More Readings,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Liu Xiaobo And The Nobel Peace Prize: More Readings
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
It has now been a little more than one month since the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize win, with the December 10 award ceremony a bit less than a month away. Here are a few links we’ve come across recently in our search for updates on the story:
Buying American,
2010
Ron Javers Worldwide
Buying American, Ron Javers
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
When New York rumors began flying about fresh talks between Newsweek and The Daily Beast over Tina Brown’s taking over the editorship of the venerable but now reeling newsweekly I found myself wondering what Xiang Xi in Guangzhou thought of all that.
Looking At China From Across The Pacific And Across The Himalayas,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Looking At China From Across The Pacific And Across The Himalayas, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
“Wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on Japan?”
Where To Begin: Five (Or More) Books About Daoism,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Where To Begin: Five (Or More) Books About Daoism, Ian Johnson
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
With all the attention to Confucius and Confucianism, it is easy to forget how important other philosophical and religious traditions have been in shaping China’s past and influencing its present. Ian Johnson helps rectify this imbalance of coverage with “The Rise of the Tao,” a long essay in the latest issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine that highlights the significance of the Daoist revival and introduces readers to an abbess who is part of this resurgence of belief. As the very first journalist China Beat ever interviewed for the site (and someone who took part in a China …
In Case You Missed It: Dreaming In Chinese,
2010
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
In Case You Missed It: Dreaming In Chinese, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
Each time my three Chinese I classmates and I complained that we had chosen a language that was simply too hard to learn, our professor had an answer at the ready.
New Release: Coming To Terms With The Nation,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
New Release: Coming To Terms With The Nation
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
On Monday, China’s decennial census began, sending six million census workers door-to-door in a quest to record and count the country’s population over the course of only ten days. A key issue in this census, according to some observers, will be placing China’s population in terms of place of residence. One thing analysts are waiting to find out, for example, is how many citizens of the PRC are described as living in cities rather than villages, as this census, which comes after a period of massive rural-to-urban migration, is supposed to describe where people physically live and work, not their …
As China Goes, So Goes The World,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
As China Goes, So Goes The World
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
Karl Gerth is a tutor and fellow at Merton College and a historian of modern China at Oxford University. His new book is As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything (Hill & Wang, 2010). (See this review by Christina Larson at the Washington Monthly and this oneat Kirkus Reviews for more on Gerth’s book.) Below, an excerpt from chapter 1 of As China Goes, which takes a look at one of the most notable phenomena of 21st-century Chinese life: the sudden boom in car ownership and its far-reaching consequences.
China Beat Is Heading To The Beach . . .,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
China Beat Is Heading To The Beach . . .
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
. . . well, not exactly. But we are taking a short vacation, to focus on wrapping up the academic year here at UC Irvine. We’ll be back online June 6 (though we will keep up our Twitter feed during the break, so follow us today!). Before we go, a few links we’d like to share:
Touring With A Book (Vs. Touring With A Band),
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Touring With A Book (Vs. Touring With A Band)
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
My “book tour,” which has had me adding a lot of miles to my frequent flyer account,has finally started winding down. I’ve got some things still to come, including an upcoming event in this area with Ian Johnson in June and then during the summer some book-related talks across the Pacific, including several Shanghai gigs (details to follow in a future post) and a July 24 presentation at the Suzhou branch of the Bookworm bookstore, and so on. Still, the pace has slowed down, which put me in a reflective mood and gave me time to finish writing a piece …
Queueing,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Queueing
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
“In queue to visit the Indian pavilion at Shanghai’s World Expo, the man in front of me purveys what will be another hour of standing in the drizzle.
“An Oasis Of Peace And Quietude”: The 1964/’65 World’S Fair China Pavilion,
2010
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
“An Oasis Of Peace And Quietude”: The 1964/’65 World’S Fair China Pavilion, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
My grandfather took his job as family photographer seriously, and over the course of four decades he produced several huge boxes of slides that my mother has recently begun scanning and digitizing. Mixed in with the usual snapshots of weddings, birthday parties, and holiday gatherings are photos he took during a family trip to the 1964/’65 World’s Fair in New York.
Reflections On Qing History,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reflections On Qing History, Maura Dykstra
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
A review of Pamela Kyle Crossley’s The Wobbling Pivot: China Since 1800, An Interpretive History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and William T. Rowe’s China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing (Belknap Press, 2009)
China’S Glee,
2010
University of Manchester
China’S Glee, William A. Callahan
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
Since mid-2009, China has become much more assertive in world affairs, taking positions that challenge the US and Europe on numerous fronts including climate change, exchange rates, nuclear Iran, cyber security, and human rights. This list of problems came as a surprise to the many experts who for the past decade have been telling us that China’s peaceful rise demonstrates that Beijing has been socialized into the international system as a responsible actor.
Book Tour Updates: Mid-May Talks,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Book Tour Updates: Mid-May Talks
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
When the dust settles from my still-in-progress “book tour for the post-book tour age” (as I’ve taken to calling the series of events relating to China in the 21st Century that I’ve been taking part in, sometimes having the stage to myself, sometimes sharing it with others), I’m going to try to write something about the experience as a whole (though there won’t be any video log of my travels a la theones by Rebecca Skloot I’ve been enjoying: h/t to Mara H. for leading me to them on the web). But for now I’m still too busy accumulating frequent …
Around The Web: Podcasts And Videos,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Around The Web: Podcasts And Videos
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
Though we spend a lot of time reading over here at China Beat headquarters, we also like to keep up with the many China-related podcasts and videos that are proliferating on the web these days. A sampling of what’s caught our attention recently:
“A Wildly Weird And Wonderful Event”,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
“A Wildly Weird And Wonderful Event”
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
For updates and insights on the 2010 Expo, one of the first places we turn isShanghai Scrap, where Shanghai-based writer Adam Minter has been following the story for almost two years. Minter’s Expo posts cover topics such as the emergence of Haibao (September 2008), the renovation of the Bund (December 2009) and demolition of neighborhoods (October 2009), and an ongoing in-depth investigation of the twisted saga of the U.S. pavilion (most recent posthere; full archive here). Minter also has an article and slideshow about the Expo atThe Atlantic. In the wake of last Saturday’s opening ceremony, we posed a few …
Expo Stories: Trying To Keep Up From Afar,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Expo Stories: Trying To Keep Up From Afar
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
When the first World’s Fair, the Crystal Palace Exhibition, took place in 1851, it did so amidst much breathless talk of a new technology of communication that was capable of sending information across vast distances at incredible speed. That then novel but now very old “new media” invention was the telegraph, which inspired commentary much like that we’ve heard recently regarding the Internet. And it is thanks to the wonders of that newest of new media, the Internet, that I have been able to follow the final lead up to and first days of the 2010 World Expo from afar, …
Shanghai Illuminations: 1890-2010,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Shanghai Illuminations: 1890-2010
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
As I’ve noted in previous blog posts, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately giving talks about my new book, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. And as followers of my blog posts also know, the 2010 Expo is one of the many topics addressed in that book, where I treat it largely, as an excerpt that went online a week ago illustrates, in terms of its connections to the 2008 Beijing Games. Right now, though, I’m at Yale for a conference and preparing to give a joint presentation with Rebecca Nedostup that focuses on …
In Case You Missed It: Fractured Rebellion,
2010
School of Oriental and African Studies
In Case You Missed It: Fractured Rebellion, John Gittings
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
A group of former Red Guards at Beijing’s Qinghua University, interviewed in spring 1971 about their recent factional struggles, laughed loudly (always a sign of uneasiness) and made their “frank confession”: yes, they had not always behaved in a spirit of proletarian comradeship, they admitted. “We used to sit on either side of the table and agree to make up our differences, but even while we shook hands we were kicking one other under the table!”.
Blogging Aas 2010 (5),
2010
University of California, Irvine
Blogging Aas 2010 (5), Miri Kim, Charles Wheeler
The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012
In this panel, organized by Siyen Fei (University of Pennsylvania), Mark Edward Lewis (Stanford University), Hilde De Weerdt (University of Oxford), and Fei presented papers that creatively engaged the work of G. William Skinner on how to conceptualize empire in time and space. Lewis proposed that the northern capital historically functioned as a peripheral center that connected the agricultural and economic centers found further south with the steppe, and this positioning, a prime concern of the dynasties founded by nomads, helped maintain China as a coherent empire. De Weerdt used social network analysis to mine Song dynastybiji for data that …
