Tag: Chinese history

March 8, 2022

Reflections on International Women’s Day and Chinese History

Elizabeth LaCouture

On International Women’s Day, March 8, 1942, the author Ding Ling published her “Thoughts on March 8” in the Yan’an Soviet newspaper. She opened with a question: “When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the...

June 3, 2020

Clothes Make the Person. Clothes Make the Nation
By Guojun Wang

“A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature...

February 6, 2014

The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 6, 2014

Hans van de Ven on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

The following post is by Hans van de Ven, author of Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China: “The Chinese Maritime Customs Service helped keep China together at key critical moments...

August 6, 2012

Interview with Zheng Wang, author of Never Forget National Humiliation

The following is an interview with Zheng Wang, author of Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations: Question: What is historical memory? Why did you use “never forgot national humiliation” as the title of this...

January 24, 2012

Ho-fung Hung: South China’s Protests Are Not as Subversive as Many Think

“China’s escalating popular violence against local authorities and humble petition to the central government in the last two decades should be understood in light of [a] longstanding Confucianist conception of authority. This conception persists despite all the ideological and political...