Photo: The dedication of the WWI memorial in Shanghai, in 1924. By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham World War I has always …
China’s Forgotten World War I
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The Opium War Comes to America (the Book, That is): A Q & A With Julia Lovell
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom This week’s China Blog interview is with Julia Lovell, a British specialist in Chinese studies who teaches …
Made in Bulgaria
Photo: A Made-in-Bulgaria Chinese pickup truck on display near the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria. By Tong Lam …
Bad China Articles: Hall of Infamy
This week’s China Blog post was originally published on The Anthill, a “writers colony” focused on writings about China, edited by …
Why Chinese TV Should Be More Like French TV
By Paul French If you want to understand a country’s national obsessions and public concerns, watch their TV crime dramas. …
Why Study Journalism in China?
Photo: Wang Zihao. © Dou Yiping By Lu-Hai Liang and Dou Yiping China’s journalism schools, like those in many countries, are …
Graffiti in Beijing
By Cutler Dozier A skinny 21-year-old Beijinger with shoulder length hair, wearing baggy jeans and a worn t-shirt, stares through his …
Satire, Cyberspace and the 25th Anniversary of the June 4th Massacre
I learned several weeks ago that China Digital Times was about to publish Crazy Crab’s Chinese Dream in Cartoons, an …
A Tale of Two First Books: A Conversation with NPR’s Louisa Lim and The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos
In 2008, I wrote in the Guardian that there had recently been a “notable acceleration” in the frequency with which “illuminating …
A Trip Back to Beijing — Courtesy of Xu Zechen and Eric Abrahamsen
By Megan Shank Step out of the Beijing airport, and taste the tang in the air. For the remainder of …
