Beijing… Beijing Noise 16 Aug 2010 Status Updates: Gulou Neighborhood: Partially destroyed but still alive, hutongs shrinking into ever-smaller pockets, festooned with banners about harmoniously participating in pre-census surveys that should effectively run most undesireables out…
history and memory… War Photography over Korea, 1950-1953: Pictures from the PRC Web 20 Dec 200921 Dec 2009 For some reason in the last week or so, Chinese websites have been featuring large picture galleries of the American aerial destruction of North Korea in the early 1950s. The…
Chinese nationalism… Huanqiu Impressions 5 Dec 2009 Within its given limits, the Chinese press can be really freewheeling, an exercise for the reader in handling contradictions. Joint statements of Sino-Canadian cooperation sit alongside justifications for executing another…
China Cultural Destruction in Kashgar [II] 4 Dec 2009 This summer I translated "Cultural Demolition in Kashgar," a French story from the dynamic Paris left-wing newspaper Liberation which attracted a wide number of readers via Danwei.org and ended up…
China… Strange Photographs of Chinese Power 28 Oct 2009 Read more here about this Zheng He-style effort to create the greatest map of Antartica, with 251 scientists and engineers on board, that the world has ever seen. And Arnaud…
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