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World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...

China/English/General/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao

Gang of Four is Gone

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Yao Wenyuan, the last surviving member of the Gang of Four — the others were Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, and Zhang Chunqiao — has die...

China/English/Events/General/Post-Mao/Taiwan

Taiwanization?

Posted on November 19, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

When President Bush cited Taiwan as a model for mainland China, though he wasn’t quite as aggressive as the headlines suggest, he raised some interesting ...

China/General/Nationalism/Post-Mao

Happy Birthday China! Happy Birthday Freedom!

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

According to People’s Daily English Edition China has turned 5,056 years old today. 5,000 years of timeless Chinese civilization, plus 56 years of New China. Al...

China/Economics/General/Post-Mao/Republican

Nourish the people with cheap diesel

Posted on August 19, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

In the post below Jonathan asked how a Confucian China could really be in the future. One possible bit of data comes from this article (From Brad DeLong). NYT r...

China/English/General/Intellectual/Post-Mao/Social History

Define "Successful"

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

There are signs that China’s government is going to resurrect Confucianism as a source of social ethics and harmony [via Simon World]. It was, after all, ...

China/English/General/Post-Mao/Social History

"Big Eyes" and Chinese Children

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is a fascinating essay about a famous Chinese picture known as Big Eyes [Via Simon World]. The followups are fascinating: a bit uncontextualized, but histo...

China/China-Russia/Diaspora/Economics/English/General/Labor/Post-Mao/Social History

ASPAC Notes: Demographics and States

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Historian of Empires Niall Ferguson [via Ralph Luker] recently wrote: Since 1989, the Russian mortality rate has risen from below 11 per 1,000 to more than 15 p...

Books/China/Economics/Education/English/General/Historiography/Post-Mao/Social History

One-Child Policy as History

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 10 Comments

I just finished teaching 20th century China, and the three biggest issues in the last section of the course were clearly economic growth, political liberalizati...

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