In her new book ‘Wild Ride’, an American journalist details her life in China as the one-party state opened to the world, then regressed back to an oppressive, inward-looking regime.
Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao, 2024
The first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame.
"Incense spheres discovered in Tang hoards, which are the earliest artefacts found to date, reveal multicultural origins upon close examination. Persian and Sogdian silversmith elements, Buddhist ideas and Syriac Christian liturgical practices, may all have left their traces on the making of the object."
Fang, F. X. (2024). Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections. The Medieval History Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09719458231226000
The reaction on Chinese social media to Netflix's adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem" has been mixed, but Vox's Aja Romano argues that depictions of nationalistic outrage are probably exaggerations. She unpacks the response to this adaptation, the book trilogy, and Tencent's "Three Body," and says this time around, the problem is Netflix, not Chinese viewers.
🇺🇸 "Local and state laws quickly targeted Chinese immigrants, often forcing them to pay fees and abandon their traditional methods of doing things. Government employment, and even the use of public schools, was banned for the Chinese. Courts typically excluded testimony from Chinese immigrants, meaning any legal disputes between Chinese and white residents would almost automatically be decided in favor of the white party."
"Local and state laws quickly targeted Chinese immigrants, often forcing them to pay fees and abandon their traditional methods of doing things. Government employment, and even the use of public schools, was banned for the Chinese. Courts typically excluded testimony from Chinese immigrants, meaning any legal disputes between Chinese and white residents would almost automatically be decided in favor of the white party."
In a new Social Science History article Mujun Zhou argues that Chinese labor NGO activism 1996-2020 had an enduring impact on the culture of public discussion & uses the case study to advance the theory of interstitial emergence in an authoritarian context.
Big congratulations to Sijie Hu, winner of the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for best article published in the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. The article examining marital fertility in five Qing China lineages over 300 years is free to read at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aehr.12269
I was thinking of rereading Barry Hughart’s Bridge of Birds, a lovely book I met in 2013. It is a fascinating narrative that mixes history and fantasy about a China that never was. I was looking for something that would encourage me to read the book again and there is no way not to like a book that starts like this:
“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.”
Code Name Kindred Spirit: Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal by Notra Trulock
"Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT" tells the inside story of one of the major spy scandals of recent years. It reads like a Le Carre story told by Franz Kafka.
Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.
@1dalm In a non-fiction example, in Amitav Ghosh's "The Great Derangement" the author points out that many of the compontents of fossil fuel consumption like the use of oil and coal are actually much older than we think and were used heavily in places like Burma and China. So the point is that things could have gone differently with different circumstances.
Finally! The mystery of who the Chinese Makhno was has been revealed and debunked! No, anarchist guerrillas did not operate against the CPC at Yunan during the 30s–50s. The Chinese American anarchist who mentioned the Chinese Makhno in his oral history simply didn’t have all the facts.
Wow! This one here is a real pageturner! I'm still in the middle of it and I'm enjoying it a great deal! Have you read it? #lisasee#bookstodon@bookstodon