China Books To Check Out, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
China Books To Check Out
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
If your New Year’s resolution is to read more, or if cold winter weather has chased you inside, pour yourself a hot drink, settle into a comfortable chair, and enjoy one (or more) of these books:
Sheep In Wolves’ Clothing? The Book The Han Nationalists Love To Loath, 2010 La Trobe University
Sheep In Wolves’ Clothing? The Book The Han Nationalists Love To Loath, James Leibold
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
What book could cause one Chinese netizen to “shiver with fear from head to toe” and others to suggest that the Han people might once again face genocide? Wolf Totem (狼图腾), the semi-autobiographical polemic of Han author Lü Jiamin 吕嘉民 (aka Jiang Rong 姜戎) and his confessional self-awakening about the beauty, strength and freedom of the Mongolian steppe and its lupine culture.
Penny For A Photo, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Penny For A Photo
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
“In the Tibetan town of Tagong, Western Sichuan, this local poses enthusiastically for my camera.
Aha Update: Conference On Asian History Luncheon, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Aha Update: Conference On Asian History Luncheon
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A quick note to call your attention to a scheduling change at this week’s American Historical Association meeting in San Diego:
China Beat At Aha, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
China Beat At Aha
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
For those attending the American Historical Association meeting in San Diego next week:
Mao Fever And The Story Of A Mao Book, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Mao Fever And The Story Of A Mao Book, Ross Terrill
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
No abstract provided.
The Dalai Lama’S Visit To D.C.: A Short Interview With A. Tom Grunfeld, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The Dalai Lama’S Visit To D.C.: A Short Interview With A. Tom Grunfeld, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The lead-up to the Dalia Lama’s meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House last week received a great deal of attention from the press, and there was also a considerable amount of after the fact assessment of the event. In order to place what happened into a broad historical perspective, I put a few questions to A. Tom Grunfeld, who is a past contributor to “China Beat” and the author ofThe Making of Modern Tibet. Here are the results of our interview via e-mail, and if you live in New York and want to hear him talk about …
As China Beat Heads Into Its Third Year…, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
As China Beat Heads Into Its Third Year…, Kate Merkel-Hess
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In January, we marked the end of our second year online. China Beat has changed a lot during that time, and will be changing more in the coming weeks and months as China Beat’s new editor, Maura Cunningham, takes the helm. It’s been my pleasure to have been founding editor of China Beat, and as I transition to a new role at the blog (I will now join the ranks of the blog’s consulting editors), I wanted to look back at how China Beat has developed since January 2008—for new readers and for readers who have been with us since …
Behind The Headline: Water, Water Everywhere…, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Behind The Headline: Water, Water Everywhere…, Ken Pomeranz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In mid-December, Financial Times published a piece about China’s south-north water diversion project. Writer Jamil Anderlini begins the article with a brief description of the project:
A Seventh Take On Jacques, 2010 University of Oslo
A Seventh Take On Jacques, Harald Bockman
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Since Jeff Wasserstrom posted a round-up of reviews of Martin Jacques’ When China Rules the World, pieces that reference the book have continued to be published, including a column by Robert Samuelson at the Wall Street Journalthat calls Jacques’ book ”masterful.” Jacques, meanwhile, published another op-ed on China and the US last week titled ”Crouching Dragon, Weakened Eagle” in the International Herald Tribune. Below, Harald Bockman raises his concerns about the on-going attention Jacques’ book is receiving, and points out—despite that attention—the weakness in the book that most reviewers are still missing.
Reading Round-Up: Barack Obama And The Dalai Lama, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reading Round-Up: Barack Obama And The Dalai Lama
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
There have been plenty of news stories recently about today’s meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama. Here are some suggestions for further reading (and viewing):
China Tweetniks, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
China Tweetniks
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Those who follow China Beat on Twitter might have noticed that our long-neglected feed has shown signs of awakening lately.
Another Side Of The Shanghai World Expo: Forum On Ict And Urban Development, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Another Side Of The Shanghai World Expo: Forum On Ict And Urban Development, Susan Brownell
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This posting marks my return to blogging after a break following my participation in the founding of The China Beat in 2008 with my postings from Beijing leading up to the Olympics. Contacts I made during the Olympics led to an invitation to do some informal work for the Forum Department of the Expo Organizing Bureau, and so I am now in Shanghai and blogging about China’s second mega-event.
Continuing Coverage Of Country Driving, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Continuing Coverage Of Country Driving
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
We’ve reviewed Country Driving, and have been reading what others think of the book as well. Reviews are appearing in a variety of places: just a few we’ve seen are at Urbanatomy, The Boston Globe, and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
Peter Hessler At Uci, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Peter Hessler At Uci
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A few images from today’s “conversation” between Peter Hessler (currently on tour to promote his newest book, Country Driving) and Ken Pomeranz at the University of California, Irvine, with almost 100 in attendance.
Rebuilding, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Rebuilding, Paul Katz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Just over five months have passed since the devastation wrought by Typhoon Morakot, and the survivors of the Siaolin Village 小林村 tragedy are coping as best they can with a lot of help from their friends, charitable organizations, and the government. However, the effects of the disaster still linger. Over 400 bodies of victims buried or washed away in the mudslide that followed hours of torrential rains will never be recovered, and there is not a large enough tract of arable land in the unscathed portions of Siaolin, or even all of Chia-hsien Township 甲仙鄉, to rebuild a community sufficient …
What Does China Imagine?, 2010 University of California, Los Angeles
What Does China Imagine?, Guangyi Li
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
One day when I was four, I found an interesting book on the shelf, called A Strange Patient. This anthology starts with an impressive piece of science fiction,Miracle on the World’s Highest Peak by Ye Yonglie. The story describes an investigation of Mount Everest, where, with some Tibetans’ help, scientists find a precious dinosaur egg embedded in amber and preserved intact over time. Unlike their counterparts in Jurassic Park, however, the Chinese scientists don’t extract dinosaur genes and clone this extinguished species. Instead, they hatch a baby dinosaur!
Jia Zhangke Does Shanghai…And Other Notes From The Field, 2010 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Jia Zhangke Does Shanghai…And Other Notes From The Field
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In addition to checking out the Expo (something I’ve blogged about before and will blog about again) and hosting a series of dialogs at M on the Bund’s Glamour Bar (the last of which takes place this Sunday at 2:30 and will find me in conversation about writing for the web and for print with Evan Osnos of the New Yorker magazine and the excellent “Letter from China” blog), I’ve been trying to take advantage of any opportunities that come along in terms of local cultural events. On the whole, I think I’ve been very lucky with my timing.
Me, Wang Hui, And Liberal Wishy-Washy-Ness, 2010 nstitute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.
Me, Wang Hui, And Liberal Wishy-Washy-Ness, Peter Zarrow
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Wang Hui is a cultural historian and critic, and professor at Qinghua University in Beijing. He was for several years editor of Dushu, a serious general interest magazine perhaps roughly — very roughly — equivalent to the Atlantic monthly in the US. He is also known as a leader of the so-called “New Left” intellectuals, who highlight the costs of economic liberalization, global capitalism, and rigid Western-style modernization policies. Early this year, charges of plagiarism began to appear concerning some of some of Wang Hui’s work. He has since been subject to numerous attacks, including ad hominen blog attacks.
Joan Hinton (1921-2010), 2010 Northwestern University
Joan Hinton (1921-2010), Charles W. Hayford
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Joan Hinton died last month in a Beijing hospital at the age of 88. It was surprising that so many mainstream American newspapers ran detailed obituaries. Hinton had lived in China since 1948, mostly running dairy farms, and she didn’t go out of her way to address Americans, as did her brother, William, author of the classic Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (1967). She did publicly attack American imperialism — in 2006, she displayed a T shirt reading “F—k Bush” in Chinese.