China Imagining the countryside in Chinese cinema May 20, 2019 0 Written by Qijun Han. Image Credit: Chinese countryside, rural view by FieldsportsChannel TV/Flickr licence CC by 2.0. The cinematic image of the Chinese countryside often appears to…
Uncategorized Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection in China July 25, 2017 0 Written by Helen Rees. East Asia has long been in the vanguard of government-driven attempts to preserve local intangible cultural heritage (ICH)—those oral traditions, performing…
China The Transformation of the West German Red Guards in the Late 1960s October 4, 2016 0 Written by Mascha Jacoby. Only months before many of their Chinese models began to be sent to the countryside “to be re-educated by the peasants”[1], a…
China Individual Rights and Corporate Identity in Xi’s China August 5, 2016 0 Written by Ryan Mitchell. Not long ago, in a coastal Chinese city, I encountered a sight that struck me as remarkable, and perhaps as a subtle…
China Why China still can’t make sense of the Cultural Revolution May 23, 2016 0 Written by Kerry Brown. If there is one certainty in contemporary Chinese politics, it’s that any mention of the Cultural Revolution, which began half a…
China China: (not) talking about a revolution May 17, 2016 0 Written by Mark Beeson. Fifty years ago on May 16 the Cultural Revolution began. Don’t expect this event to be given much attention in China…
China Is Chairman Xi taking China back to the Cultural Revolution? April 4, 2016 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. Before considering today’s parallels with the Cultural Revolution, first let’s deal with the characterization of China’s current leader as Xi Zedong, or…
China The true nature of Xi Jinping’s power February 25, 2016 2 Written by Kerry Brown. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was fond of using a simple drawing of what he called a `duck-rabbit’. From one angle, it…
China Gender inequalities at work in urban China November 2, 2015 0 Written by Jieyu Liu. The Chinese Communist Party firmly believed that the way to achieve national women’s emancipation was to ensure women did full-time paid work…
China The secret Maoist Chinese operation that conquered malaria – and won a Nobel October 16, 2015 0 Written by Jia-Chen Fu. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, Project 523 – a covert operation launched by the Chinese government and headed by…
