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Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History

I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading

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Books I’m Reading: 写给大家的中国美术史

Something’s been running around my mind since I started reading this book: the idea of the scholar-painter. Each of the early Chinese dynasties had court painters, but its during the first centuries AD, after the fall of the Han and … Continue reading

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China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology

Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in … Continue reading

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Long Yongtu’s comments get pwned on the internet

????????????? ????????? | ??5???????? via kwout Long Yongtu, former official, got a lot of flack for making remarks at a recent conference saying that the government ought to take a harder stance towards so called “diao min”, meaning troublesome people. … Continue reading

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China, universal values, democracy

Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of … Continue reading

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