Before China Beat, There Was China Beyond The Headlines,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Before China Beat, There Was China Beyond The Headlines, Timothy B. Weston
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
For several years now there has been a close connection between China Beat and China beyond the Headlines. The latter, a series of essay collections edited by myself and Lionel M. Jensen, is designed for a general and classroom audience (Volume One was published in 2000; Volume Two, China’s Transformations, was released in 2007). In addition to some common players who have been involved with both, such as Geremie Barmé, Tim Cheek, Tim Oakes, Jeff Wasserstrom and myself, China Beat and China beyond the Headlines are fortunate to share Susan McEachern of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers as an editor. Each …
Book Talk(S),
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Book Talk(S)
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Finishing up work on China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which is due out in a few days from Oxford University Press, and then more recently preparing for a series of public events that are linked in some way to its publication, set me thinking about the varied ways that books incorporate things that have gone before them. The many kinds of building blocks, from tales told to things written down, that authors use to create something new.
I’ve never written a novel, but I’ve heard that these can easily grow out of a tale told …
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China Beat Event,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China Beat Event
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
On Wednesday, April 7, the China Beat was pleased to co-host (with the Humanities Collective) a talk at UCI by Nicolai Volland, who teaches Chinese Studies at National University of Singapore. Volland spoke on “Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China’s Other ‘Age of Openness’ in the 1950s.” ReferencingFrank Dikötter‘s recent book on Republican China, The Age of Openness: China Before Mao, Volland argued that 1950s China can also be seen as “open,” if not to the U.S. and Western Europe. Volland explored cultural exchanges within the socialist world to provide evidence of China’s continued international engagement during the early Mao years. Interested readers …
Though I Am Gone,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Though I Am Gone
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In his review of Andrew Walder’s Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement, John Gittings discusses the July 1966 murder of Bian Zhongyun, deputy principal of the Beijing Normal Girls’ High School. Gittings mentions that Bian’s story has been told in a moving documentary that features interviews with her husband, who shares photographs that he took at the time of her death. The entire movie, Wo sui siqu (我虽死去 Though I Am Gone), is available on YouTube; below, we’ve embedded the first section of the film (in Mandarin with English subtitles).
Listen At Home To Peter Hessler And Ken Pomeranz,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Listen At Home To Peter Hessler And Ken Pomeranz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Earlier this year, UC Irvine hosted a conversation between Peter Hessler and Ken Pomeranz, centering on a discussion of Hessler’s new book, Country Driving. A podcast of that event is now available, jointly produced by The China Beat andMaking History Podcast (a site run by Jana Remy, a UCI History graduate student and friend of the blog). Check it out at the MHP website, or on iTunes.
Just One Child Wins Post-1900 Levenson Prize,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Just One Child Wins Post-1900 Levenson Prize
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Though China Beat contributors come from around the globe, the blog’s editorial team is based at UC Irvine. For that reason, we take special pride in announcing that at last month’s Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, UCI Professor of Anthropology Susan Greenhalgh won the Joseph Levenson Prize for Best Book on China Post-1900. Professor Greenhalgh’s book, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, was published by the University of California Press in 2008, and attempts to answer several questions that have permeated her work as a population specialist during the era of the one-child policy:
Why? Why …
In Case You Missed It: China Dream,
2010
London School of Economics and Political Science
In Case You Missed It: China Dream, Christopher R. Hughes
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Liu Mingfu 刘明福, China Dream: The Great Power Thinking and Strategic Positioning of China in the Post-American Age (Zhongguo meng: hou meiguo shidai de daguo siwei zhanlue dingwei). (Beijing: Zhongguo youyi chuban gongsi, 2010).
China Dream, by Colonel Liu Mingfu, a professor at Beijing’s National Defense University, is the latest of several books to speculate on how China can displace the leadership of the United States after the global economic crisis. Understandably, Liu’s military background has led to conjecture over whether his views reflect the ambitions of the PLA or even China’s leaders. Yet China Dream is most interesting not …
Missing Footage At The Aas,
2010
University of British Columbia
Missing Footage At The Aas, Timothy Cheek
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The Roundtable session at this year’s annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Philadelphia was titled “Against Amnesia: History, Memory and the Role of Public Intellectuals in 21st Century China.” A mix of scholars from China and North America were scheduled to report and discuss, but at the last minute our featured speaker, Ms. Cui Weiping (崔卫平) of the Beijing Film Academy, could not attend. She was prevented from leaving China for the roundtable even though she had been specially invited by the AAS and had her passport, US visa, and air tickets in hand. She was …
How To Make A Colony: Reform And Resistance In Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917,
2010
Macalester College
How To Make A Colony: Reform And Resistance In Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917, Matthew J. Thrasher
German and Russian Studies Honors Projects
This project analyzes the Russian colonization of Turkestan in the second half of the nineteenth century. Specific attention is given to a group of Russian bureaucrats and military personnel who sought to reform the Tsar’s administration of the region. By outlining the debate surrounding economic and political reform, as well as the controversy circulating around Russian ethnographic practice, this project discusses the myriad ways in which the local population of Turkestan negotiated new forms of anti-colonial resistance within their rapidly changing social environment.
Google Bus,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Google Bus
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Amid uncertainty regarding Google’s future in China, on March 10, 2010, a line 319 bus near the East Gate of Beijing University is wrapped in an advertisement for the company. The URL on the back of the bus still works, though it’s now being routed through Hong Kong.
—Photo by Sara Kile
Sara Kile is a PhD candidate in premodern Chinese literature at Columbia University. She is currently in Nanjing conducting research for her dissertation, “Experimenting in the Limelight: Cultural Entrepreneurship in Early Qing China.”
China's 'Great Unity': U.S.-China Relations On The New Global Horizon,
2010
Whitworth University
China's 'Great Unity': U.S.-China Relations On The New Global Horizon, Anthony E. Clark
History Faculty Scholarship
Great Decisions Lecture (2010)
Uncharted Territory,
2010
University of Massachusetts Boston
Uncharted Territory, Ananya Vajpeyi
History Faculty Publication Series
Srinath Raghavan’s first book, War and Peace in Modern India, follows Guha in terms of both method and period, excavating the archival record to explore five significant domestic and international conflicts that beset India under Nehru.
Coming Distractions: China Watcher,
2010
University of California, Los Angeles
Coming Distractions: China Watcher, Richard Baum
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In the winter of 1994 I moved to Yokohama, Japan, to direct a semester-long U.C. Education Abroad Program (EAP) curriculum on Peace and Development Studies at Meiji Gakuin University. Because all electronic communications in Japan were controlled by the government’s telecomm monopoly, NHK, Internet access was extremely expensive, and my Compuserve subscription was costing me a small fortune —over US$250 each month — in connection charges. Since I was in more-or-less regular e-mail contact with a number of other China scholars in various countries, I decided to economize on my on-line connection charges by periodically sending group e-mailings to several …
Lani Montreal Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Lani Montreal Interview, Thi Navi Thach
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with Filipina teacher, writer, performer Lani T. Montreal by Thi Navi Thach
Tatsu Aoki Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Tatsu Aoki Interview, Brian Callahan
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with musician Tatsu Aoki
Ann Poochareon Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Ann Poochareon Interview, Christina Yang
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with new media artist Ann Poochareon by Christina Yang
Tina Ramirez Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Tina Ramirez Interview, Karina Lopez
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with poet Tina Ramirez
Dahuang Zhou Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Dahuang Zhou Interview, Julia Lin
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with multimedia artist and entrepreneur DaHuang Zhou
Chi Jang Yin Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Chi Jang Yin Interview, Anna Huang
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with experimental documentary filmmaker Chi Jang Yin by Anna Huang
Von Kommanivanh Interview,
2010
DePaul University
Von Kommanivanh Interview, John Pluciennik
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with Loatian born/Chicago based painter Von Kommanivahn by John Pluciennik
