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Cai Yuanpei and Charter 08
Today is the birthday of Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940). A classically-trained scholar who later decided to broaden his education and study in Germany, he was Minister of Education (briefly) under Yuan...
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It’s not “Who do you love?” that matters, but “What do you fear the most?”
In class two weeks ago we were watching the documentary series China From the Inside when one of my students asked, with some reason, that if there was so much hardship and discontent why does the CCP...
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Dylan in Beijing: final thoughts and a bit of a rant
After the Dylan concert in Beijing on Wednesday night, I put a few general thoughts up on twitter and was going to leave it at that, but in the days since there has been a rash of increasingly...
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The Cuckolded Communist Party
Would Hu Jintao ever consider allowing his daughter and/or wife to film an Internet group sex video with Charlie Sheen, “Snooki” from Jersey Shore, and half a dozen or so rabid chimps if it meant a...
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Turning rumors into news: The non-death of Jiang Zemin
by Zhang Yajun Over the last few years, I have seen the Chinese government’s learning from its PR mistakes and trying to improve its skill in handling the media. Some journalists may disagree with me,...
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When an American historian tries to translate his latest book into Chinese, wacky hilarity ensues. . Continue reading →
View ArticleKind of Online in the PRC: The New Normal?
For anybody who still thinks China is a great business environment or that China has a bright future as a research hub, intellectual incubator, or simply a good place for their next office or factory,...
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In yesterday’s LA Times, Julie Makinen wrote a quirky piece about censorship in China. Apparently, a fellow foreign correspondent had a few of her books and materials inspected and ultimately had to...
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New post by me on the LA Review of Books excellent China blog on the historian Qin Hui and his (now banned in the PRC) book Out of Autocracy 走出帝制. Out of Autocracy, Off the Shelves In recent years,...
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“China’s Latest Proposal to Block Internet VPNs Still Doesn’t Make Sense,”...
China’s Latest Proposal to Block Internet VPNs Still Doesn’t Make Sense The “VPNs are going to be blocked in China” story seems to get written at least once a year. Eventually, it might actually come...
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“New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China,” Radii China
New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China Earlier this month, the Cambridge University Press (CUP), publisher of the China Quarterly, one of the most important journals for...
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