By Charlotte Furth At the March annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, held in Toronto, the association recognized Charlotte Furth with the AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to A...
Rian Dundon, whose photographs have previously appeared at China Beat, will soon be releasing a new book of photography on China, Changsha. Dundon’s book will feature a forward written by friend of t...
The Confucius Institute, China Studies, and the University of Kentucky Opening Ceremony of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kentucky, 2010 By Denise Ho To conclude my Chinese history lect...
Wang Chaoguang, ed. 蒋介石的人际网络 (Chiang Kai-shek’s Interpersonal Relationships: Perspectives Across the Strait) Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2011. RMB 39.00 By Sherman Lai This book brings t...
By Xujun Eberlein One April day in my birth city of Chongqing, I encountered a rare quarrel in People’s Park. The park is one of several places in downtown Chongqing that offer low-cost “...
How a first-ever exhibition on Chinese dissent got noticed in India By Reshma Patil The Chinese artist offered a firm handshake and his business card. The Indian curator hesitated for a split second....
By Duncan Hewitt It was just like old times—in many of China’s major newspapers, a prominently displayed half-page story headlined: “Officials and citizens all across the country express unwavering s...
By Anne Henochowicz The last two years have seen much talk about the explosion of social media as a tool of real change, most notably during the Arab Spring. Tunisia’s and Egypt’s revolutions w...
Vukovich, Daniel F. China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012. xviii, 185 pp. $130.00 (cloth). By Fabio Lanza This slim, sharply-...
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Whenever I take a trip that includes stops in Shanghai and Beijing, two people I make sure to meet up with are Jeremy Friedlein and David Moser, the Academic Directors of the C...
Here at China Beat, of course, we spend a lot of time trolling the web for great commentary on China. If you follow us on Twitter (as over 3500 people do, which we really appreciate), you’ll get a da...
We’ve previously blogged about Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions, a series that now runs to over three hundred titles. The books offer readers a quick overview of topics ranging from...
Stewart, Roderick and Sharon. Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. xiii, 464 pp. By David Webster Millions of Chinese have memorized Mao ...
By Xujun Eberlein A longer version of this essay appears at Inside-Out China. In the wake of Bo Xilai’s sudden downfall, shortly after what could be called an online carnival among China watche...
By Sebastian Veg When Peking University Professor Kong Qingdong’s diatribe on Hongkongers and their lingering colonial infatuation swept over the Internet in late January, the widespread and growing ...
How the world’s largest newspaper market reads Tibet By Reshma Patil The runaway from a Tibetan village in Naba, China, led the way down the slippery dirt track to the doorstep of a restaurant with a...
By Alexandra Grey Outside of China, people are agape at the prospect of learning to write Chinese: “So hard! Too hard.” Back in Australia, I know first generation migrants who speak Chinese at home b...
For the past several years, we’ve organized an informal meet-and-greet at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, the “China Beat Breakfast.” That won’t be taking place this year, unfortuna...
By Yong Chen There are good reasons why Jeremy Lin deserves the extensive news coverage he has received recently: a Harvard grad playing in the NBA, he had an indispensible role in the Knicks’ 9-2 ru...
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Death was not uncommon on the streets of Peking in the winter of 1937. Beggars froze on the sidewalks; suicides occurred regularly as despair engulfed people; competing ...
Xu, Guoqi. Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011. viii, 336 pp. $39.95 (cloth) By Edward Rhoads Unlike the Second World War...
By Denise Ho To launch the second semester of the “Year of China,” the University of Kentucky invited John Kamm, founder and director of The Dui Hua Foundation, to be our keynote lecturer. Like our k...
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Publisher’s Weekly recently praised Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Frontlines of China’s Great Urban Migration, the new book by talented freelance writer Michelle Dammon L...
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By Stephen R. Platt A big new China book to hit shelves in recent weeks is Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, written by University of Massa...
Schneider, Helen M. Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. xii, 321 pp. $94.00 (cloth); 34.95 (paper) B...
By Kate Merkel-Hess Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the US took him across the country, from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles (where, sadly, despite spending some time with a sartorially-c...
By Sebastian Veg During a recent trip to Taipei to observe the January presidential and legislative elections, like many people with little first-hand knowledge of Taiwan, I was struck by the unique ...
By James Palmer When the Tangshan Earthquake hit northern China on July 28, 1976, the country was in the midst of a tumultuous year that would grow even more chaotic with Mao’s death less than two mo...
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