Nationalism

Lu Xun once criticized the Chinese people for having no sense of nationalism or duty for their country. He called his own people cowards who would stand with the enemy as long as it meant they could profit for themselves even amidst the suffering of their countrymen. The Chinese only talked about their own old [...]

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Progress?

Wen Jiabao willing to open dialog with Dalai Lama
I’ve only been able to find this on China Digital Times, so I’ll refrain from posting until I hear more about this. So while most people would scoff at Mr. Wen’s comments about the Dalai Lama, this is actually pretty big. It’s a face saving statement that [...]

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Chinese Class

I will now begin having a separate page for my own special free Chinese class. Ok, so the purpose of that page isn’t really to teach Chinese, but just so I can get more practice writing. The themes of each lesson will be based off of the Spoken Chinese (汉语口语）book published by Sinolingua. The dialogs, [...]

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Strangest Things… and Free Tibet Movement

So as some of you know, WordPress allows you to see what search engine terms people use to find your blog. Usually people search ‘China’ or ‘Tibet’ or ‘Bjork’ and end up here, but occasionally there are some strange ones. However, there is none stranger than this:
“funny looking bald men without chins”
… … …
Anyways. Tibetan [...]

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Online Games and Crop Circles

So I’ll take a break from China for today and put up a bunch of links to online games that I play at work to waste time:
 - Not exactly the most action based online game I’ve ever played, but very deep and doesn’t take up a lot of time.
Human Age - Similar to Renaissance Kingdoms but [...]

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China, Privatization, and Property Rights

China and Land Reform
This is a very good article, though a bit short, that talks about some peasant demands for privatization of rural lands. The best thing about this article is that it brings in both sides of the argument. So let’s take a look.
Latin American economist Hernando de Soto talks a lot about property [...]

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Chinese on Tibet

Previously I wrote a post about the angry response of the Han Chinese towards the Tibetan riots, so I’ll ignore those types of comments for now. Instead, here are some links to different Chinese views on the situation.
Tibet: Her Pain, My Shame
Tibet is disappearing. The spirit which makes her beautiful and peaceful is disappearing. She [...]

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The T-Word (Not Tibet)

Taiwan.
Mr. Ma won the election in Taiwan, saying that he will jumpstart the economy and arrange for a peace treaty with the mainland if Mr. Hu removes the missiles pointing at the island, but… how can this be possible? I mean if Taiwan is a part of the PRC, then there’s no way a peace treaty can [...]

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Government and Officials

According to Spence in his book “Search for Modern China”, one of the reasons for the late Qing’s weakness was their failure to expand the government even after huge population growth with the introduction of New World crops and increases in the number of educated men ready to take up jobs in the bureaucracy. As [...]

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Rich Chinese People

Mr. Zhang’s Utopia
This is a pretty fun article about a multi-millionaire’s crazy dreams and achievements. The guy is totally out of his mind and is kind of funny looking, but… I kind of like his randomness. I mean a giant golden pyramid without any practical purpose that’s not meant to be a tacky tourist attraction in [...]

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