Borderlands… Tao Zhu and the Guangxi Bandits: Mao Zedong Nianpu Notes, Jan. 1951 (3) 22 Mar 201424 Oct 2018 Whereas January 1950 had found the Chinese leader stuck in Moscow, January 1951 found Mao Zedong at the storm center in Beijing. Mere months after founding the new People's Republic…
American Foreign Policy… Three Recent Speeches on U.S.-China Relations 9 May 2011 Jon Huntsman, U.S. Ambassador to the PRC, delivers the Oksenberg-Barnett Lecture in Shanghai, 6 April 2011, sponsored by the NCUSCR (National Committee on U.S.-China Relations): Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary…
Chinese communist party… Reading Tibetan-Chinese History in the PRC 5 Dec 201023 Oct 2018 The historical question of Tibet ’s administrative and cultural linkage to Chinese central governments prior to October 1950 is a matter of consequential debate. As with other Tibetan topics which…
China… Contested Era, Blossoming Memory: Reconsidering the Early 1950s in the Present PRC 1 Nov 201014 Feb 2014 In walking around Chinese book markets, perusing Chinese newspapers, talking to Chinese scholars and intellectuals, and just plain thinking here in the PRC, the remarkable fact emerges of the enormous…
Cello… Curiosities on the Chinese Internet 28 Mar 201028 Mar 2010 Given that censorship is supposed to be heavier than ever these days in China, I found very curious -- and slightly aberrant -- these two stories today on Huanqiu Shibao,…
China… Remembering Tiananmen and 1989 in Europe [1] 19 Jul 200922 Jul 2009 June 4, 1989 may lay buried under new epochs already, but the meaning of that date for China and its observers is clearly going to continue reverberate for decades. The…
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