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Ai Weiwei And The “Age Of Madness”: Day Five And Counting, Lionel M. Jensen
Ai Weiwei And The “Age Of Madness”: Day Five And Counting, Lionel M. Jensen
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Just over four days after Ai Weiwei’s sudden apprehension by China’s Public Security Bureau, the government has initiated, as is its tireless and terrifying custom, the public process of building a case against the disappeared by alluding to the subject’s “crimes.”
From Monkey King To Mao: Cultivating Online Games With “Chinese Characteristics”, Marcella Szablewicz
From Monkey King To Mao: Cultivating Online Games With “Chinese Characteristics”, Marcella Szablewicz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
With 300 million people playing Internet games in China, the question of how these games affect youth has captured the attention of the public and researchers alike. I first became interested in studying online gaming in 2002 when, as a language student in Harbin, China, I discovered the extent to which playing online games in Internet cafés had become a central part of social life for many urban youth. However, like any new technology, the growing popularity of games has also sparked growing fears about their potential to negatively impact society. In recent years the Chinese media has been full …
Book Review: Gourmets In The Land Of Famine, Emily Hill
Book Review: Gourmets In The Land Of Famine, Emily Hill
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Why is “eating in Canton” (shi zai Guangzhou) known as the best in China? Seung-joon Lee’s lively and original study examines the peculiarities and politics of eating in Canton (Guangzhou) from Qing times to 1937. Using a delectable range of materials in Chinese, Japanese, and English, the book offers an illuminating entrée to the culture and political correctness of eating in modern Chinese history. As the author points out, few historical studies focus on food supplies. Many narrative histories of China, for instance, include sections on the Canton-based events of the 1920s when the Guomindang and the Chinese …
Book Review: Mao Zedong And China In The Twentieth-Century World, Jeremy Tai
Book Review: Mao Zedong And China In The Twentieth-Century World, Jeremy Tai
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Mao Zedong may no longer be the sublime object of desire in China, but in recent decades his image has been continuously invoked and consumed in countless guises – both familiar and new – ranging from pop art portraits to the ubiquitous face of Chinese banknotes, from Cultural Revolution kitsch to the ObaMao souvenirs currently found in tourist traps around China. The reproduction of Mao in his various postmodern manifestations suggests a loss of meaning and depoliticization; at the same time, however, the deep-seated clash between sentimental and polemical cultural representations also makes clear that there is still much at …
On Chinese Mothering And Amy Chua
On Chinese Mothering And Amy Chua
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Yale Law professor Amy Chua’s article on “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is still in the top five most-emailed stories at the Wall Street Journal’s website, four days after its publication last Saturday. Chua has attracted a considerable amount of attention with her article (and newly released book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother), which examines Chinese parenting techniques and compares them to Western approaches to raising children:
Upcoming Events
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Happy New Year from China Beat! If you’ve just purchased a 2011 calendar, here are some upcoming China-related events—featuring quite a few China Beatniks—to jot down in it:
Chicago And The Future Of U.S.-China Summits, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Chicago And The Future Of U.S.-China Summits, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Except in the Windy City itself, where Hu Jintao heads today and will spend tomorrow, the reporting and speculative commentary on the Chinese leader’s second visit to the United States has tended to focus on it’s just-concluding Washington leg. To me, though, the stop in Chicago seemed from the start the most potentially interesting and novel part of Hu’s trip. After all, this is the first time that a visit to Chicago, an economically important crossroads city with a colorful history and famous architectural landmarks, has figured in the itinerary of the head of China’s Communist Party.
China In 2010: A Baker’S Dozen Of Links, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China In 2010: A Baker’S Dozen Of Links, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Last month, many commentators offered up lists of top books and top news stories of 2010, sometimes focusing on a particular place or topic. It would be easy to follow suit here, in my first 2011 blog post about China. After all, there were plenty of books on the country published last year (some of which I reviewed individually or in groups). There were also plenty of China-related headlines, from those twelve months ago detailing rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, to summer ones reporting that the nation had surpassed Japan to become both the world’s number two economy, to …
A Quick Q & A With Kim Rathcke Jensen: A Beijing-Based Danish Journalist
A Quick Q & A With Kim Rathcke Jensen: A Beijing-Based Danish Journalist
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
A variety of events, from the Copenhagen environmental issues summit in 2009 to the controversy sparked by the Empty Chair in Oslo last year, have led to news stories in the American press that involve both China and a Scandinavian country. This led me to wonder what, if anything, was distinctive about the way Scandinavian media cover China. Realizing that there are bound to be important differences among Scandinavian countries in this regard, but needing to start somewhere in getting a feel for this issue, I turned to Kim Rathcke Jensen, a Danish reporter whose wide-ranging China-focused twitter feedhttp://twitter.com/kinablog/ I’ve …
China Beat On Break
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Happy holidays to all our readers and contributors from the China Beat editorial team.
Ode To The Communist Song Revisited
Ode To The Communist Song Revisited
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Back in 2009, as the Chinese Communist Party geared up to mark one major official anniversary (the 60th birthday of the founding of the PRC), China Beat was fortunate enough to be able to run a lively piece of reportage by the versatile writer Lijia Zhang on an unusual museum devoted to a single revolutionary song. Now, as the CCP prepares for another anniversary (the 90th birthday of the organization itself), headlines about the “Red Song” wave (a fad that has been most closely associated with Chongqing but has also been making its mark on other parts of the country) …
The Red Legacy, Alec Ash
The Red Legacy, Alec Ash
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
When I left Beijing after two years studying Mandarin at Peking and Tsinghua Universities, my Chinese friends from those universities threw me a leaving dinner at the Cultural Revolution restaurant, far on the outskirts of Beijing, outside the 5th ring road. While punters ate, drank and sang along with Mao era songs, waitresses dressed as Red Guards performed patriotic dances, clutching prop rifles. “Long live Chairman Mao!,” the diners would shout, tucking into red-braised pork – good thing this wasn’t the Great Leap Forward restaurant, or it would perhaps have been a quarter bowl of rice each. “Death to capitalist …
Hu Jintao’S “Concession” On Human Rights, Alice Miller
Hu Jintao’S “Concession” On Human Rights, Alice Miller
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao’s remarks on human rights during his joint press conference with President Obama in Washington on 19 January have been widely regarded in foreign media as a grudging concession that broke new ground in Beijing’s position on the issue. Specifically, confronted by a persistent Washington press corps, Hu for the first time acknowledged “the universality of human rights” in international politics and conceded that “a lot still needs to be done in China in terms of human rights.”
Memories Of Hyperdevelopment: Chongqing Trip Report, Jacob Dreyer
Memories Of Hyperdevelopment: Chongqing Trip Report, Jacob Dreyer
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Like any good Shanghai resident, I am more or less terrified by the China that exists outside of metro line 3. However, I had been obsessing for months about the municipality of Chongqing, a radically unusual city even by the standards of contemporary China. When I found that I had a spare weekend, I finally took a trip there to explore. Instead of describing my trip, or offering a journalistic take on the city à la Christina Larson, whose piece in Foreign Policy does that more competently than I could hope to, what follows is a series of meditations on …
Shanghai Spaces And Histories: Thoughts On Reading Qiu Xiaolong’S Years Of Red Dust, Daisy Yan Du
Shanghai Spaces And Histories: Thoughts On Reading Qiu Xiaolong’S Years Of Red Dust, Daisy Yan Du
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
In Shanghai Modern, Leo Lee, a prominent specialist in Chinese literary studies, focuses much of his attention on urban space as a marker of modernity in Republican Shanghai (1912-1949). His mappings of the city include places that are located mostly in the concessions, where Western (and later Japanese) influences dominated: the high-rise buildings in the Bund, the department stores located on or near Nanjing Road, and the cafes in the French Concession, as well as dance halls, public parks, race clubs, and cinemas. Lee also touches upon the lanes populated by native Chinese, but his main focus is on …
Asia’S Disappearing Daughters, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Asia’S Disappearing Daughters, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Last week witnessed the publication of Mara Hvistendahl’s Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Public Affairs, 2011), and over the weekend my take on the book appeared online at the recently relaunched Asian Review of Books. That review is reposted here with the kind permission of the ARB, almost exactly as it ran there. Those who are interested in learning more about Hvistendahl’s arguments after reading my essay can, of course, buy the book, but U.S.-based followers of the blog have another option as well: catch one of the public events …
Humiliation And Normalization: A Tale Of Two New China Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Humiliation And Normalization: A Tale Of Two New China Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Henry Kissinger and Robert Bickers don’t have much in common. One is a U.S.-based octogenarian; the other a U.K.-based scholar roughly half as old. Only one, Kissinger, has been characterized by Christopher Hitchens (among others) as a perpetrator of war crimes. And only one, ironically Kissinger again, has won a Nobel Peace Prize. Kissinger spent some time as a professor, but then went on to work as a diplomat and business consultant. Bickers, however, while writing about diplomats and entrepreneurs (along with policemen and other kinds of people), has made his career solely within the academy. This list could be …
"I Have A Dream...", Minnesota State University, Mankato
"I Have A Dream...", Minnesota State University, Mankato
Famous People
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Conquest, Colonization, And The Cross: Religious Aspects Of The Conquest And Colonization Of Honduras, Chad Mccutchen
Conquest, Colonization, And The Cross: Religious Aspects Of The Conquest And Colonization Of Honduras, Chad Mccutchen
History Theses - Archive
Religiosity pervades the conquest and colonization of Honduras. The secular church, the missionaries, and the colonial aristocracy all played vital roles in the process. The Hispanic social consciousness emerged out of the Reconquista which allowed a fusion of religiosity and conquest, and this psyche manifested in the New World. Spain became equally dependent on the sanctioning of the Catholic Church to justify their enterprises in the Americas. However, the extreme poverty in Honduras created a unique situation in which the ecclesiastics depended on the local mining economy to survive. Therefore the clergy in Honduras struggled to balance their economic pursuits …
The Trick Of The Tale: Deconstructing Johann Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum, James Robert Allen
The Trick Of The Tale: Deconstructing Johann Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum, James Robert Allen
History Theses - Archive
This thesis is an intellectual history of early modern European beliefs in witchcraft. Most research and scholarship on this period has focused on understanding the “witch hunts” and the collective phenomenon known as the witchcraze. Historians have focused more the social and political conditions that contributed to witch-hunting. These studies have tended to focus on the institutions that existed to facilitate witchcraft prosecutions. Comparatively, the writings of “demonologists” or intellectuals during the early modern period have been studied to a lesser extent.1 Early modern authors like Johann Weyer are often interpreted as either a skeptic or believer in witchcraft. Most …
Double Take: Selected Views From The Photography Collection At Bryn Mawr College, 1860s-Present, Carrie Robbins
Double Take: Selected Views From The Photography Collection At Bryn Mawr College, 1860s-Present, Carrie Robbins
Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks
Exhibition held at Bryn Mawr College Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, from September 27 to December 22, 2011.
Morgan County - The Forgotten War Remembered In Morgan County, Kentucky, W. Lynn Nickell
Morgan County - The Forgotten War Remembered In Morgan County, Kentucky, W. Lynn Nickell
County Histories of Kentucky
The Forgotten War Remembered in Morgan County, Kentucky by W. Lynn Nickell published in 2011.
Form, Fit, And Swim, Kristin Devaughn
Form, Fit, And Swim, Kristin Devaughn
Whittier Scholars Program
The history of bathing suits reflects enormous change in social norms and moves over the last century. Bathing attire for both men and women have evolved at different paces. HIstorically men swam in the nude, while women rarely ever wore swimsuits or swam. Women were typically found strolling down the beach shores dressed in a tunic, the basic swimwear of the 1800’s. Throughout the modern design history of swimwear, there have been two major types of garments for women, the one-piece and the two-piece. The one-piece swimsuit consisted of a tunic complimented by a woven skirt. This one-piece garment made …
The Multiple Identities Of Azerbaijan, Babajide George Iloba
The Multiple Identities Of Azerbaijan, Babajide George Iloba
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper focuses on the emerging Azerbaijani identity and its competing articulations in the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Iran, and in Diaspora. The northern Republic of Azerbaijan has a population of over 8 million people, the majority of whom have different social and political experiences than over 30 million Azeris in the South, or in Iranian Azerbaijan. However, there are formidable historical, socio-cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ties that bind all Azerbaijanis together as one people. This necessity of coming together finds its highest expression in Diaspora and among the Azeri émigrés. In the process, the Azeri Diaspora experiences a host …
Turkish Language In Iran (From The Ghaznavid Empire To The End Of The Safavid Dynasty), Zivar Huseynova
Turkish Language In Iran (From The Ghaznavid Empire To The End Of The Safavid Dynasty), Zivar Huseynova
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
It is well known that throughout History/ Archaeology Persians and Turks have been collecting within the same nation in states of peace and war and creating empires under the names of various dynasties. There are many sources giving evidence to the fact that Turks lived and ruled in these lands. In the article we will give information about the status of the Turkish language exclusively during the period of time from the Ghaznavid Empire until the end of the Safavid Empire. Beginning by the Ghaznavid government in 961, in later centuries the Kharazms, Seljuks, Teymuris, Elkhans, Aq Koyunlus, Kara Koyunlus, …
Resemblances In The Wedding And Natal Customs Of Azerbaijanis And Bulgarians, Zlatozhivka Zdravkova,, Reneta Zlateva
Resemblances In The Wedding And Natal Customs Of Azerbaijanis And Bulgarians, Zlatozhivka Zdravkova,, Reneta Zlateva
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
The present article describes the natal rites and customs of the Azerbaijan and Bulgarian nations. Special attention is paid to the resemblances in the practicing and understanding of the traditions. Despite the fact that the two nations live in regions remote from each other, they have common beliefs and strive to provide prosperity for the home, family and children.
Schamachi/Şamaxı In 1683/1684 – Engelbert Kaempfer’S Intercultural Contacts, Lothar Weiss
Schamachi/Şamaxı In 1683/1684 – Engelbert Kaempfer’S Intercultural Contacts, Lothar Weiss
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
As secretary of a Swedish delegation to the court of Shah Sulaimān, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) travelled through what is today Azərbaycan for 77 days. He stayed in Scha- machi/Şamaxı, the former capital of the Persian province of Šervān, for four weeks, including his visit to Bakı and the oil fields of Apsheron – this report (Lemgo 1712) is well known. Not so well known are details of his stay in Scha- machi; his diary and his liber amicorum (auto- graph book with five entries from Schamachi, in five languages; not shown before) give the names of seven or eight of …
Romanian Immigrant Travel Routes To America, Mihaela Mudure
Romanian Immigrant Travel Routes To America, Mihaela Mudure
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper claims the existence of various immigrant travel routes in American literature. The literary argumentation relies on Domnica Radulescu and her first novel Train to Trieste and on Alta Ifland‘s collection of short stories Elegy for a Fabulous Land. Both writers were born in Romania and were confronted with totalitarianism and its impositions upon individual identity. Travel and mobility have shaped the identities of these two writers in decisive ways which draw the contours of an emerging hyphenated ethnic literature: Romanian-American literature.
The Steam Engine And Industrialization, Wyatt Sherlock
The Steam Engine And Industrialization, Wyatt Sherlock
A with Honors Projects
A model steam engine was crafted. An essay describes the process and the importance of steam power in the Industrial Revolution.
Chanute Air Museum, Chanute Air Force Base, And Bessie Coleman, Kelley Heaney
Chanute Air Museum, Chanute Air Force Base, And Bessie Coleman, Kelley Heaney
A with Honors Projects
Series of articles related to Chanute Air Museum, the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL and Bessie Coleman.