Readings On Liu Xiaobo And The Nobel Peace Prize, Part 2,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Readings On Liu Xiaobo And The Nobel Peace Prize, Part 2
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Many more commentaries about Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize have been published since we collected an initial round of readings on Friday. Here’s the latest:
First Reactions: Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
First Reactions: Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Here in California, we woke up early this morning to the news that Liu Xiaobo had indeed been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. There’s been an outpouring of coverage in the hours since Liu’s win was announced, which will surely continue in the days to come; at the moment, “Liu Xiaobo” and “Nobel Peace Prize” are also in Twitter’s top-ten trending topics worldwide. We’ve been combing through news stories and tweets and put together this quick list of readings:
China’S Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
China’S Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis, Wang Feng
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Observers of China’s rise, when assessing the implications for global peace and prosperity, have largely focused their attention on the country’s economy, on its energy and resource needs, on the environmental consequences of its rapid expansion, and on the nation’s military buildup and strategic ambitions. Yet, underlying all these dazzling changes and monumental concerns is a driving force that has been seriously underappreciated: China’s changing demography.
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 …
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 …
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.
Shin-Gate: Misunderstanding The Power Of Shame In South Korea,
2010
Central Washington University
Shin-Gate: Misunderstanding The Power Of Shame In South Korea, Koushik Ghosh
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business
Shame is not perceived the same way in different cultures, nor is it used the same way. How does that difference across cultures influence our interactions in public space? How does it affect our business interactions? It has been argued, especially in the wake of Asia’s financial crisis in 1997, that there was a lack of shame in Asian cultures aft er the economic crash. The same kind of argument has been presented in the United States following the financial crisis which began in 2008. President Obama has tried to shame the Wall Street crowd. Economic commentators have spoken of …
Review: Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity In Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture By Michiko Suzuki,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
Review: Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity In Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture By Michiko Suzuki, Susanna Fessler Phd
East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship
Review of the book "Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture" by M. Suzuki
Hardball,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Hardball, Paul Katz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This year’s holiday cheer has been dampened by a series of events that have shaken Taiwan’s sporting world – the abrupt release by the Sinon Bulls (興農牛) baseball team of All-Star catcher Yeh Chun-chang葉君璋, as well as the fishy circumstances surrounding his aborted attempt to resume his career with the Brother Elephants (兄弟象).
Reminder: China Beat At Aha,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Reminder: China Beat At Aha
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A reminder that China Beat editors, contributors, and readers will be gathering for an informal get-together on Saturday, January 9 at the Marriott Starbucks at 7:30 a.m.
While We Were Away…,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
While We Were Away…
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The most distressing news from China over the holidays was the severe sentence (11 years in prison) handed to dissident Liu Xiaobo for his involvement in the writing and organization of Charter ’08 in December 2008. For those who are catching up on this story, a brief set of readings to bring you up to speed on the situation.
Upcoming Events,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Upcoming Events
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A few upcoming events that we think will be of interest to China Beat readers:
The China Beat: Lost In Translation Edition,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The China Beat: Lost In Translation Edition
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
1. A trackback on Peter Hessler’s recent China Beat photo essay, “Behind the Wheel, About to Snap” led us to this Spanish-language review of his latest book,Country Driving. If you don’t read Spanish, there’s a button on the page that takes you to a Google translation of the review; while the translation hits a few potholes along the way, it’s a generally good rendition of a perceptive and well-written overview of Hessler’s book.
“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
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.
Blogging Aas 2010 (4),
2010
University of Toronto
Blogging Aas 2010 (4), Graham Sanders
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
This panel attempted to think through a number of issues related to gossip and rumor in traditional China. Paola Zamperini of Amhest College presided over the affair in truly breathtaking Edwardian piratical style. Incisive comments were provided by Robert Hymes of Columbia University. Hymes asked the question of whether or not gossip was normative or subversive, suggesting that there was very little in any of the papers that could be taken as a subversive reading of gossip. Rather, gossip in each case tended to affirm or reaffirm normative social hierarchies and values.
What I Read On My Summer Vacation (Part Iii),
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
What I Read On My Summer Vacation (Part Iii), Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
I’ll get to books I actually read over the summer (or in one case, am part of the way through as I write), as opposed to simply ones I dipped into, learned about, wrote about, or thought about, in a minute. First, though, I want to mention briefly a trio of book-related summertime activities of mine that don’t quite fit into the format of this series.
