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In Case You Missed It: Dreaming In Chinese, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Each time my three Chinese I classmates and I complained that we had chosen a language that was simply too hard to learn, our professor had an answer at the ready.

Liu Xiaobo And The Nobel Peace Prize: More Readings

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It has now been a little more than one month since the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize win, with the December 10 award ceremony a bit less than a month away. Here are a few links we’ve come across recently in our search for updates on the story:

Touring With A Book (Vs. Touring With A Band)

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

My “book tour,” which has had me adding a lot of miles to my frequent flyer account,has finally started winding down. I’ve got some things still to come, including an upcoming event in this area with Ian Johnson in June and then during the summer some book-related talks across the Pacific, including several Shanghai gigs (details to follow in a future post) and a July 24 presentation at the Suzhou branch of the Bookworm bookstore, and so on. Still, the pace has slowed down, which put me in a reflective mood and gave me time to finish writing a piece …

You Can’T Make An Omelette With Only One Egg, Vignesh Pillai

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In her book Egg on Mao, Denise Chong chronicles the life of Lu Decheng, a seemingly ordinary man who committed the very extraordinary act of vandalizing Mao Zedong’s portrait during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. At the heart of the book is an exploration of morality under Communist rule in the Hunanese village of Liuyang, beginning with the lead-up to Lu’s birth in 1963, his formative years, his involvement in the 1989 protests, and his incarceration. Chong draws her narrative both from interviews with Lu, who now lives in Canada, and from interviews she conducted in China in April and …

Why I Support Liu Xiaobo’S Nobel Peace Prize, Wang Chaohua

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

What does a Nobel Peace Prize stand for politically? We probably can’t take the written words of Alfred Nobel himself and of the awarding committee at face value. In the past century, the prize has stirred up numerous controversies. For example, a war-mongering, coup-conspiring politician like Henry Kissinger was chosen to be honored, leaving the rest of the world with jaws dropped and the winner himself reluctant to revisit the moment in public. After all, the prize was decided and awarded by a committee of five retired politicians. In addition, no matter how politically balanced each of the actual committee …

A House Museum Café: Part 2, Leksa Chmielewski

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

As I chat with the librarian-cum-barista, a Shanghainese family comes in and starts looking over the menu. They order three different kinds of imported coffee and as the librarian lights the flame percolator, I ask her whether there are differences between Shanghainese visitors and those from other areas of China.

Links, Links, And More Links

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

• The Economic Observer has started a new column that provides a roundup of the commentary and op-ed pieces contained in each week’s newspaper and also a few of the opinion pieces that appear on the EO‘s website. The most recent column can be found here. The EO has also begun providing abstracts of its monthly Book Review; check out September’s lineup here.

Planning To Write A China Book? Just Say No, Jonathan Watts

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

We wrote to Jonathan Watts to ask him to write a commentary on the book tour he’s been on to promote When a Billion Chinese Jump, which included a stop at UC Irvine, but he said he was too busy being whisked from champagne receptions to meetings with Hollywood directors seeking to buy the film rights to the book to craft something suitable. Watts was, however, good enough to offer us permission to run (in slightly trimmed-down form) a piece he wrote—with tongue firmly in cheek—for a 2009 issue of the newsletter of the Beijing Foreign Correspondents’ Club. Composed while …

A Bitter Pill For Prime Minister Kan, James Farrer

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It was a bitter pill for the Democratic Party of Japan, no matter how they swallowed it. By releasing a Chinese fishing boat captain detained by Japan without a trial, Prime Minster Kan Naoto was clearly bowing under Chinese pressure. The captain had been arrested by the Japanese coast guard for allegedly ramming his boat into Japanese coast guard vessels while in territorial waters claimed both by China and Japan. The Japanese government appeared to buckle and released the captain to China on Saturday. According to an unnamed official in the prime minister’s office quoted in the Asahi Shinbun on …

Review: Wasperton: A Roman, British And Anglo-Saxon Community In Central England, Martin Carver, Ed., Bailey Young

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

World War I And Peace : The Development And Rise Of The Peace Process In Early Twentieth Century United States, Jeff Pugh

Seminary Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Letters From Hampton, James Iversen, Birgit Flemming Larsen, Berry Johnson, Doreen Petersen

The Bridge

A unique house filled with memories and memorabilia stands on the west edge of the Franklin County Seat town of Hampton, Iowa. The house and barn and 12 acres, situated in a pleasant & picturesque semi-rural setting, was the home of the Christian Nielsen and his wife Anna, born Jensen, from the time of their purchase of the property in 1920 until the death of their youngest daughter in 2001.

Vulcan Historical Review 14 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 2, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 3, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 1, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Ada Constitution & Bylaws (2010), American Dental Association

Constitution & Bylaws

The ADA Commons Constitution & Bylaws archival collection comprises printed issues of the American Dental Association's Constitution and Bylaws. The collection also includes the ADA Charter and the ADA Code of Ethics issued 1924-1946.

Ada Code Of Ethics (January 2010), American Dental Association

Code of Ethics

The ADA Code of Ethics has three main components: The Principles of Ethics, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Advisory Opinions. Contents may also include: Amendment to ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Insert for the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct. The most current issue is available on the ADA’s website.

Vulcan Historical Review 14 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Lnglourious Basterds - A Critical Analysis, Rebecca Dobrinski, Jared Peoples

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 279-288

Commemorative Book For The New Campuses Of Hkdi And Ive (Lee Wai Lee), Hkdi & Ive (Lee Wai Lee)

Staff Publications

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Located in Tiu Keng Leng, the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and IVE (Lee Wai Lee) mega-campus is an open and dynamic environment conducive to creative learning and innovative exploration. Based on the award winning design from the International Architectural Design Competition, the campus blends an open outlook with teaching and learning spaces that encourage interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas.

The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors And The Culture Of Print, 1880-1914, Peter Schulman

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In an age of the Kindle and e-books, how refreshing and meaningful to read Willa Z. Silverman’s fascinating study, which so eloquently describes a time when printed books not only mattered but were treasured, sought after, and treated almost as lovers at times. Far from being a treatise on monomaniacal, “nebbishy” bookworms, Silverman sheds light on a facet of Belle E´poque history hitherto underdeveloped and introduces us to a colorful, eccentric, artistic, and fanatically driven set of bibliophiles bent on creating a haven for the book, a “bibliopolis,” or as one of Silverman’s subjects, Robert de Montesquiou, put it referring …

2010; Commendation For Interfaith Cooperation, Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church

Miscellaneous Materials

No abstract provided.

Newsletter, 2010-08, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Papers

No abstract provided.

Publications; 2010; The Imprisonment Of African American Women, Catherine Collins

Publications and Professional Materials

No abstract provided.

Japanese Demon Lore, Noriko T. Reider

All USU Press Publications

Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctivly gendered social and cultural meanings.

Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular …

Menorah Review (No. 73, Summer/Fall, 2010)

Menorah Review

An Interpretation of the Valley of Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14) -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Hebrew: A World of Its Own -- How an Educated Elite May Have Shaped the Bible -- Moreshet: From the Classics -- Saul Bellow to Cynthia Ozick on the Holocaust -- Speaking Otherwise: Form and Meaning in the Book of Ruth -- Two Poems

2010 Celebration Of Inquiry Program, Coastal Carolina University

Celebration of Inquiry

9th Celebration of Inquiry, February 17-19, 2010. Theme: Meeting the Challenges of our Times: Risks, Responsibilities and Rewards. 2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Competition abstracts and schedule are included in the program.

The Emerging Church And Global Civil Society: Postmodern Christianity As A Source For Global Values, Aaron Stuvland

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

The subject of this essay is the relationship of religion, as a source of values, to the construction of a more robust global values discourse. A specific focus is how religion, specifically Christianity, is influenced by postmodernism to better inform normative thinking on global civil society (GCS). To this end, I argue that religion's role in the global values discourse is enhanced by a dynamic process of adaptation and transformation as part of the larger process of globalization. 1 Significantly, religion is not simply back as the "re-enchantment" and "de-secularization" literature contends but also manifesting in fundamentally new and potentially …

2010 Ruby Yearbook, Lindsay Adams, Jonathan Edward Barber, Taylor Manferdini, Katie Callahan, Elizabeth Burns, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2010 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.