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May 20, 2008
As a follow up to yesterday’s post… I currently have in my possession, on loan from the Harvard library, volume 6 part 5 of Science and Civilization of China. This particular volume was published well after the death of Joseph Needham, but nonetheless, is made from his painstaking research on China.
You may wonder why on […]
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May 19, 2008
I am heading over to Booksmith in Coolidge Corner this evening to go see a talk on Simon Winchester’s new book, The Man Who Loved China. I’m pretty excited about this since I’ve read two of his other books and liked them a whole lot, especially The River at the Center of the World. I […]
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February 7, 2008
Happy New Year, and welcome to the year of the rat. Today is Spring Festival, or the lunar new year… and as it’s the rat, it’s the first year of a new 12 year cycle. Things that happen this year are supposed to set the pace for the whole cycle, which is pretty […]
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January 31, 2008
This is a summary and response to Yang, G. (2005). “Environmental NGOs and institutional dynamics in China,” The China Quarterly, 181, 46-66.
This article was a great update on the sort of information I was collecting in 1999. The basic scene is this: China is a fairly repressive non-democratic society where protest and political organization […]
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November 27, 2007
i don’t suppose you keep up on Chinese pop music, but she retired from the business, and unlike Celene Dion, I don’t expect her to be making a comeback in Vegas. I occasionally think about this when i realize how much of a black whole there is for interesting talent among Chinese female pop singers. […]
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November 26, 2007
强迫症
I learned a new word in Chinese today while listening to Chinesepod. I believe I learned it before, and likely Maomao would be upset with me for forgetting. Unfortunately if I don’t use words then I am not so likely to remember them.
Let’s look at the components here for fun:
强 (qiang): strong, powerful, energetic
迫 (po): […]
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November 26, 2007
I was listening to BBC worldservice this morning, and apparently a book called Wolf Totem （朗图腾） by Jiang Rong is going to be published in English. I’m not sure why this news is hitting now, as the book was set for English publication back in 2005, unless it’s the news that the translation is […]
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November 21, 2007
Responses to “On Point” from 7 November
The folks in the Washington Post are of the opinion that Anti-Americanism has transformed into a more mass antiamericanism, something that transcends various ideological subsets. The best example brought up is that it is ludicrous to expect a political leader to promote US interests if the general public of […]
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November 8, 2007
It’s been a busy week, in some ways. I did some watercolors this evening, and now I’m sewing up some little stuffies for fun (and to increase my knowledge of how this sewing thing works for 3D objects).
I spent some time last night nailing down notes for some books I had to return to the […]
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August 23, 2006
I’ve managed to set myself up for a good trip to China this time around. A two week jaunt will take me to Sichuan and back, a 14 day trip with a smattering of long distance train and plane travel. Most likely I will eat some ridiculously spicy food, see some outstanding mountains, and wonders […]
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