Jean-Philippe Béja On Liu Xiaobo,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Jean-Philippe Béja On Liu Xiaobo
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In only a few hours, word will come from Oslo and the world will know whether or not this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner is Chinese activist and author Liu Xiaobo, currently serving an eleven-year prison sentence for “subverting state authority.”Speculation about Liu’s odds has been running at a fever pitch this week, so much so that Irish bookmaker Paddy Power made an early payout to those who had put money on Liu by Tuesday. Authorities in Beijing, however, have made it clear that this is one international prize that China doesn’t want to win.
New Readings On Mega-Events And Matteo Ricci,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
New Readings On Mega-Events And Matteo Ricci
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Two of the scholarly publications on our radar have new China-related content online:
California Dreamin’ At China’S World’S Fair,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
California Dreamin’ At China’S World’S Fair, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Shanghai can be a surreal place to visit in ordinary times. This is due to the juxtaposition of buildings, modes of transportation, and lifestyles that seem to belong to not just different decades but different centuries. And this aspect of the city was heightened for me last summer by the presence of the 2010 World Expo.
Coming Distractions: Chinese Whiskers,
2010
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Coming Distractions: Chinese Whiskers, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Pallavi Aiyar’s 2008 memoir, Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, details the six years she spent living in Beijing, first teaching English and then becoming a reporter for The Hindu. Now stationed in Brussels with the Business Standard, Aiyar’s articles tend to focus on topics such as Belgium’s cultural conflicts and theuneven parallels drawn between India and China. For this reason, I was quite surprised to learn that Aiyar’s second book, to be released by Harper Collins India in early 2011, is a story of Beijing narrated by two cats: Tofu and Soyabean, the protagonists of Chinese Whiskers, share …
Gao Xingjian, Wolfgang Kubin, And The Nobel Prize Debate Ten Years On,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Gao Xingjian, Wolfgang Kubin, And The Nobel Prize Debate Ten Years On, Sebastian Veg
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Chinese literature and its significance or insignificance is a continued subject of heated debate in China. From May Fourth, when anti-traditionalist thinkers called on literature to assume a pioneering role in transforming subjects into citizens, to its use as propaganda during World War Two and on both sides of the Strait after 1949, it was seen as a crucial vector of political ideas. During the “Enlightenment” of the 1980s, literature was again called upon to play a central – though politically very different – role in helping society come to terms with the officially still taboo traumas of the Cultural …
On Michael Jackson In Mongolia, Hanging Out At Shanghai’S World’S Fair, And Other Topics: A Quick Q & A With Marketplace’S Rob Schmitz,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
On Michael Jackson In Mongolia, Hanging Out At Shanghai’S World’S Fair, And Other Topics: A Quick Q & A With Marketplace’S Rob Schmitz, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Over the summer, there was a changing of the guard in the Shanghai office ofMarketplace, an American radio program that has consistently carried smart reports about China. Scott Tong moved from the PRC back to the US (where he continues to work for the show) and former Peace Corps volunteer Rob Schmitztook his place. I had the pleasure of meeting them both in Shanghai in July andran a post with the former in early August, in which he reflected on his time covering the China beat. Now, as a sequel to that post, comes a quick q and a with …
Shanghai Mourns Victims Of High-Rise Fire,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Shanghai Mourns Victims Of High-Rise Fire
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Thousands of Shanghai residents gathered on Sunday to mourn the victims of last week’s fire at Jiaozhou Road. Adam Minter has a thoughtful post on the mourning procession (as well as links for further reading) at Shanghai Scrap; Marta Cooper’s blog . . . in Shanghai has photos from the assembly. At the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, watch a short video about Sunday’s gathering. On Twitter, users have been marking their thoughts on the fire and its aftermath with the hashtag #jiaozhoulu.
Bill And Warren’S Excellent (Chinese) Adventure,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Bill And Warren’S Excellent (Chinese) Adventure, Caroline Reeves
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are throwing a charity banquet in Beijing. On September 29th, the two American tycoons will host a dinner for China’s wealthiest magnates to convince them to give their monies away to charity. This event has caused a stir in the Chinese world. Everyone from movie stars to industry moguls is involved. Doonesbury is talking about it. Some billionaires have publicly declined to dine with the dynamic duo, wondering aloud if the event was planned to publicly part them from their new fortunes. Their response has called into question China’s “charitable impulse” and given rise to …
What I Read On My Summer Vacation (Iv),
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
What I Read On My Summer Vacation (Iv), Ron Javers
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
I was booked to give a China talk in August, high season in the Hamptons, as part of the summer series at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.
Anhui’S Barefoot Aids Doctors,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Anhui’S Barefoot Aids Doctors, Annie Ye Ren
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
For the past four years, I have periodically worked with a Chinese grassroots HIV/AIDS non-governmental organization (NGO) that serves children in Fuyang Prefecture, Anhui Province. The Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association (AOS)gives aid directly to local communities, addressing local needs that are often overlooked or underfunded by large-scale government projects.
Confucianism, Authoritarianism, And Democratization In South Korea,
2010
Brigham Young University
Confucianism, Authoritarianism, And Democratization In South Korea, Andrew Selman
BYU Asian Studies Journal
Many argue that principles of liberal democracy are generally not compatible with the values and beliefs of a society based on Confucian principles.1 Confucianism promotes loyalty and obedience to and respect for those in authority. If Confucian values form the foundation of a society, then the citizens will show deference to the leaders of that country and will be more likely to submit to authoritarian or even totalitarian governments. The continuation of authoritarian governments in China, Singapore, and Vietnam, all countries with considerable Confucian influence in society, seem to support this theory. Between 1948 and 1987, South Korea also saw …
The Contradictions Of Kitabatake Chikafusa's Jinno Shotoki: How The Jinno Shotoki Shows That Japan Is Not Shinkoku,
2010
Brigham Young University
The Contradictions Of Kitabatake Chikafusa's Jinno Shotoki: How The Jinno Shotoki Shows That Japan Is Not Shinkoku, Adam Wheeler
BYU Asian Studies Journal
It is widely held by Japanese and non-Japanese historians alike that Japan has enjoyed an uninterrupted reign by a single royal family for at least the last 1,500 years, if not longer. This unprecedented system of government has given rise to much investigation as to how such a feat could have been accomplished and has also given rise to the belief that Japan is Shinkoku, or “divine land.” Theories on the longevity of the Japanese imperial family have been based on the relationship between them and surrounding families of influence, as well as the tenuous relationship that existed between …
Full Issue,
2010
Brigham Young University
Evasive Writing: Resistance To The Government And Modernization Hidden In Taiwanese Fiction,
2010
Brigham Young University
Evasive Writing: Resistance To The Government And Modernization Hidden In Taiwanese Fiction, Harrison Paul
BYU Asian Studies Journal
Sometimes, it is best not to speak the truth—at least not directly. Under an authoritarian regime, the truth—whether of events or opinions—often hurts the one who reveals it more than anyone else. For this reason, writers throughout the world have long employed evasive writing tactics not only to avoid censorship of their ideas but also to escape imprisonment or execution at the government’s hand. Taiwanese writers under the period of Nationalist-imposed martial law were no different. Nativist writers, characterized by “use of the Taiwanese dialect, depiction of the plight of country folks or small-town dwellers in economic difficulty, and resistance …
Genre Paintings,
2010
Brigham Young University
Genre Paintings, Elisa Allan
BYU Asian Studies Journal
Artistic responses to the changing socio-political stability in Korea during the eighteenth-century indicate the growing disillusionment and dissatisfaction with yangban (gentry class) consolidated control, the thinning control of Confucianism over class, and the blossoming of contending ideas.
Mandarins And Martyrs Of Shanxi In Late-Imperial China,
2010
Whitworth University
Mandarins And Martyrs Of Shanxi In Late-Imperial China, Anthony E. Clark
History Faculty Scholarship
Ricci Institute Series: Sowing the Field of Christian Missions
Tianjin Report 2,
2010
Whitworth University
Tianjin Report 2, Anthony E. Clark
History Faculty Scholarship
Research report on the Roman Catholic Vincentian Library in Tianjin, China. Closed in 1951 by the Chinese government.
Tianjin Report 1,
2010
Whitworth University
Tianjin Report 1, Anthony E. Clark
History Faculty Scholarship
Research report on the Roman Catholic Vincentian Library in Tianjin, China. Closed in 1951 by the Chinese government.
Of The,By The,For The People; Where Do We Stand?,
2010
media activist
Of The,By The,For The People; Where Do We Stand?, Savad Rahman
savad rahman
No abstract provided.
The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto,
2010
The Australian National University
The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Although President Suharto dominated Indonesian politics for more than three decades, and although Indonesians spent millions of hours under his regime mastering the principles of the national ideology, Pancasila, remarkable little remains of his ideological legacy.
