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Ode To The Communist Song, Zhang Lijia

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The massive museum, a modern structure of grey bricks and white-painted cement, stands a little abruptly, halfway up Xiayun Mountain, in Fangshang County, in western skirts of Beijing. It is the ‘Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China Museum’, dedicated entirely to this revolutionary song.

On a recent sunny afternoon, when a friend and I descended – or should I say ascended as the mountain, at 2161 meter above sea level, is known as ‘the roof of Beijing’ – we found ourselves the only visitors. The spacious car park was empty. Yiaotangshang, a quiet mountain village, isn’t …

Trail Blazer - Volume 84, Number 4, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on September 24, 2009.

The Grizzly, September 24, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Roger Lee, Liz Kilmer, Ashley Mccomeskey, Akasya Benge, Lisa Jobe, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, James Kilduff, Rebecca Smyth, Jonathan Edward Barber, Christopher Wierzbowski, Jason K. Mullins, Zach Shamberg, Gianna Paone, Abbie Cichowski

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

CIE Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary, Makes Changes • Introducing Ursinus' New Graduate Assistant • Tenth Annual Fringe Festival Kicks Off This Week • Visiting Professor Taije Silverman Shares Poetry • Is American Idol Rigged? An Investigatory Review • How Far Will You Go to Stretch Your Dollar in This Economy? • Restaurant Review: Molly Maguire's Irish Restaurant and Pub • Opinions: Freshmen Parking on Campus; Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh • Ursinus Women's Gymnastics Spends Weekend Volunteering • Coach Thomas Announces Baseball Captains for 2010 Season

Obama In China: Friendly Advice Ii

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

After Barack Obama’s inauguration, we ran a series at China Beat of various China experts’ reading recommendations for Obama on China (See installments I, II, III,IV, V, VI). At the time, we assumed a trip to China would be one of Obama’s top priorities–as is now clear with the recent announcement that Obama will visit China in November 2009. So we sent out a few emails to China watchers from a variety of backgrounds, asking if they had advice for Obama as he prepares for the summit in Beijing. We previously posted Robert Kapp’s suggestions for the president; below, advice …

Baldwin, Joseph Trimble, 1801-1840 (Sc 2037), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2037. Letter from Baldwin, written in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife Louisa in Philadelphia. He writes of his travel in Kentucky and includes a description of Lost River Cave and grist mill.

Lilley, G. F. (Sc 2036), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2036. Letter from G. F. Lilley, Shawhan, Kentucky, to his cousin (Miss) M. A. Lilley, giving news of his family and other members of the community. A typescript of this letter is included as an additional file.

Jane Snow Cooks: Spirited Recipes And Stories, Jane Snow

University of Akron Press Publications

Jane knows food. She’s taste-tested dishes with Paul Prudhomme, interviewed Martha Stewart, and rubbed elbows with Wolfgang Puck. Jane is adventurous. She once sampled every item offered at three amusement parks. Jane is downright daring. While judging Ohio State Fair dishes, she downed a slice of Spam-apple pie.

This collection of recipes and stories is a cornucopia of haute cuisine and drive-in delights. It includes local Akron, Ohio favorites like Cranberry Velvet, miniature marshmallows and all, Kaase’s Cinnamon Star Cookies, and the Bavarian Haus’s Sauerkraut Balls. But Jane offers much more—Gertie’s Crab Cakes, direct from Baltimore, Maryland; Choco-Orange Brownies; Garlic …

Chuck Hagel On Iraq And What Needs To Be Done With Iran, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.

In Case You Missed It: The Beijing Of Possibilities, Xujun Eberlein

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Earlier this year, we ran two excerpts from Jonathan Tel’s (then forthcoming) collection of short stories, The Beijing of Possibilities (the excerpts were “Year of the Gorilla” and “Though the Candles Flicker Red“). Author (and occasional China Beat contributor) Xujun Eberlein recently reviewed the collection at her blog,Inside-Out China, and has allowed us to repost her review in full below.

Chinese stories can be exotic to foreigners, while a foreigner telling stories about China can be exotic to the natives of the land as well. In recent years, there has been no shortage of nonfiction books set in Beijing written …

Watching The World Wake Up From History: 20 Years After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 08, September 21, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 04, September 21, 2009, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Sherry, Luvicia Graham, 1877-1961 (Sc 2035), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2035. Copies of "The Postal Bulletin," issued to employees of the U.S. Postal Service, and notes made by Miss Luvicia Graham Sherry, the postmaster at Alvaton, Kentucky, on various rules and procedures, including those relating to wartime.

The Du Ponts In Kentucky: Louisville’S Central Park, The Southern Exposition, And An Entrepreneurial Spirit*, Timothy J. Mullin

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

* The du Pont family is large, and recurring names and nicknames often make it difficult to follow who’s who. The Lammot family is woven together with the du Pont family in a complicated thread, especially since Margaretta was a favorite name. Adding the Coleman/Moxham family only makes the complicated spider’s web of family relationships that much more difficult. For this purpose selected family trees are included as appendices.

The Chanticleer, 2009-09-21, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Davos In Dalian, Daniel A. Bell

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last weekend, the World Economic Forum held its third “Annual Meeting of the New Champions” in Dalian. Known as “Summer Davos,” the event brought together over a thousand business and political leaders from around the world (aTelegraph story about Premier Wen Jiabao’s keynote speech can be found here; sina.com has complete coverage of the weekend here). China Beat contributor Daniel A. Bell attended the meeting, and shares his experiences as a lone philosopher in a sea of CEOs and political leaders.

My Davos experience did not get off to a good start. After a week-long research trip to Singapore, I …

Ada News - 09/21/2009, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Frontline And China

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last spring, China Beat ran an interview with Geremie Barmé concerning a lawsuit brought against the Long Bow Group for its film The Gate of Heavenly Peace. Software company Jenzabar, Inc., its CEO Robert Maginn, Jr., and its President Chai Ling filed suit against Long Bow for defamation and copyright infringement, charges related to content on the documentary’s website.

News stories about the lawsuit can be found at the Boston Globe and the Times of London; it was also the subject of a “Letter from China” by Evan Osnos at theNew Yorker. Last month, producers of Frontline, the PBS documentary …

Old Words, New Worlds: Revisiting The Modernity Of Tradition, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

The Modernity of Sanskrit by Simona Sawhney ably makes the argument for an ethically vigilant, politically active, and intellectually timely criticism. Sawhney describes the crisis as she sees it, proposes a counter-challenge, and then proceeds to demonstrate how this post-Babri Masjid critical practice (to use her own point of departure) could be realised. She reads Kalidasa’s Śākuntalam and Meghadūtam, the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyana and the Gītā in and of themselves, and also through 20th century writers in Hindi and Bengali, like Dharamvir Bharati, Mohan Rakesh, Hazariprasad Dwivedi, Rabindranath Tagore, Buddhadeb Bose, Jaishankar Prasad and Mohandas Gandhi (Gandhi is the odd …

Elizabeth K. Collins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Readings On Xinjiang

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Earlier this week, the Chinese government announced it had arrested six people allegedly involved in a bomb-making operation in Xinjiang. Tensions in the region continue to run high in the wake of July’s riots and recent arrests of people accused of syringe attacks. China Beat recently ran an interview with a Han Chinese student, Leong, who reflected on the summer’s violence; we also featuredthis essay by James Millward back in July. Here are five more articles on Xinjiang and the continuing unrest there:

1. Lucy Hornby at Reuters posted a blog entry earlier this month describing the panicked atmosphere in …

Pet Milk Company, 1949-1957 (Mss 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Two annual field reports, 1951 and 1954, profiling dairy farmers and their operations in Warren and Simpson Counties in Kentucky as well as Robertson County, Tennessee; also includes miscellaneous copies of the newsletter "Pet Dairy Chats", 1949 to 1957.

National Day: Sneak Preview

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last spring we ran a series of excerpts from Philip J. Cunningham’s book,Tiananmen Moon. Cunningham alerted us to his recent postings of “sneak preview” materials from the CCTV National Day programming at his blog, Frontier International. He wrote:

Walking through cramped studios and cacophonous corridors filled with actors and extras singing, chatting, rehearsing their lines and doing last-minute checks of costumes and make-up brought back memories of working on epic China films such as The Last Emperor and Empire of the Sun. It always amazes me to see how relaxed and informal show business people are immediately before and after …

Covington, Dale (Sc 2034), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2034. Catalog for "Portrait of a Town: Cave City, Kentucky," a 2009 Kentucky Library & Museum exhibition featuring the photographs of William R. Reynolds, Jr. taken approximately 1908-1910. Includes images and descriptions of Cave City citizens (both white and African American), homes, churches, schools and businesses, as well as information about Reynolds, his family and home, early 20th century cameras and Kentucky photographers, and the development of Cave City.

Trail Blazer - Volume 84, Number 3, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on September 17, 2009.

The Grizzly, September 17, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Maryanne Berthel, Rebecca Smyth, Lisa Jobe, Christopher Wierzbowski, Gianna Paone, Michael Delaney, Ellen Bernhard, Helen Ann Coin, Karin Zerella, Kim Klee, Abbie Cichowski, Deborah Yanessa, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Patrick Hayakawa, Emily Mercadante, Luke Benko, Andrea Magnolo

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Recycling Team Takes Action Against Campus Waste • Annual Activities Fair Starts the Year Off • Campus Safety, Police Relations: Battle of Jurisdiction • Berman's New Exhibit: "Muriel's Moores" • Is the Power Plant Damaging More Than Our Eardrums? • Restaurant Review: Iron Hill Brewery • Club Spotlight: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship • Hidden Treasures in the Berman and Myrin • Opinion: Liberal Arts, Limited Choices?; Facebook Friends: How Far is Too Far?; Obama's Administration and the Takeover of the Communist Czar Regime; Socialism is the New Word for Progress • UC Men's Soccer Coach Adds Sustainability Coordinator to His Title …

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 07, September 17, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Three Generations

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Today we are debuting a new feature. China Beat will be occasionally running a photo with a short gloss from one of our contributors. Today, we feature a photo from one of the regular contributors to this new feature, Alec Ash of Six.

Three generations: Confucius, welcoming visitors to his temple in Beijing; a sweeper, most likely taught to hate everything Confucian when he was young; and a little girl, with other things on her mind. Of them all, it’s the girl who will have the biggest impact on China’s future.

Three generations: Confucius, welcoming visitors to his temple in …

Maupin, Gabriel (Lg 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 423. Original land grant, 10 September 1802, by which Charles Scott, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Gabriel Maupin 1,200 acres in [Warren County], Kentucky. Identified as "a copy attest."

The Landscape Within: Shanghai Photography By Howard French

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Howard French, former Shanghai bureau chief for the New York Times, has recently posted a new collection of black-and-white photographs on his website. The photo gallery, entitled “Disappearing Shanghai Part Two: The Landscape Within,” is accompanied by an essay written by French. Below, an excerpt from “The Landscape Within” and a sample of French’s photography to whet your appetite:

As many times as I have tread those asphalt streets, my mission this summer was altogether different from my photographic explorations of the past. It was inspired, in part, by a suggestion from a friend, the photographer Danny Lyon, that sounded …