November 2011
17 posts
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Cultural Exchange Offers Respite in U.S.-China... →
Chinese Characters contributor Ian Johnson reports for The New York Times.
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Life in a Glass House →
Ai Wei Wei also made Foreign Policy’s list of the top global thinkers this years. Here’s a short profile by Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson.
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How Today's China Resembles 19th Century America -... →
By Jeff Wasserstrom and economics historian Stephen Mihm.
“He Weifang, meanwhile, is an outspoken critic of the Chinese legal system who...”
– He Weifang make’s Foreign Policy’’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. You will be able to learn more about him in Chinese Characters.
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All the Reviews that Fit in Print--of the New Deng... →
Chinese Characters contributor Xujun Eberlein on how reviews of Ezra Vogel’s new book are shaped by reviewers’ perspective on China’s most important post-Mao leader.
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“There is a rumor on the Chinese internet that, at various government levels,...”
– A post by contributor Xujun Eberlein at Inside-Out China: China’s Officialdom Novels: Translators Pay Attention!
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12 Foreign Policy Females You Should Follow →
Number one on the Daily Muse list? Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson!
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China in the World/The World In China →
Ken Pomeranz and Jeff Wasserstrom will have a public dialog on this theme on Nov. 16 in Washington D.C.
“These two colossal entities, with such utterly different provenances—the world’s...”
– How Walmart Is Changing China by Orville Schell in The Atlantic.
“My sense is that China, past and present, looms as one giant counterfactual to...”
– Cris Campbell introduces The China Rule in his Genealogy of Religion blog.
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“Tenzin Wangmo, a 20-year-old Tibetan nun, woke up to clear skies on October...”
– From “Trouble in Tibet” in The Spectator by Chinese Characters contributor Alec Ash.
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“How is it that a Communist Party remains in power more than 20 years after the...”
– Nov. 16 in Washington D.C.: China in the World/The World in China | Wilson Center
“Almost all of the elements are in place for an uprising like we saw in 1989 –...”
– Chinese banker quoted in Financial Times piece “Chinese Elite Have New International Outlook”
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God in China →
Good Listening: Tim Gardam reports on Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam, Taoism and folk religions as they exist in China today for the BBC.
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“Global Times’s aggressive editorial style is the product of two...”
– From CC contributor Christina Larson’s “China’s Fox News,” which is organized around a profile of its main editor, Hu Xijin, who is described as someone who “wears his longish hair brushed forward in a vaguely hipster look…is wiry and frenetic [and] speaks...
October 2011
27 posts
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“For the eight million Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang — a desert region in...”
– China’s Uighur Muslims yearn for liberal Hajj regime by Ananth Krishnan in The Hindu
