http://www.economist.com/node/21541716
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/18/iconic_good_samaritan_case_in_china.php
:O :O :O
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/TKoY3j6yyyM/?resourceId=0_06_02_99
I like the way shanghaiinese sounds!
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://badcanto.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/mainland-scholar-many-hongkonger-are-dogs/
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
so uh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2uINfAKOxc
fucking A
he actually calls hongkongers 'running dogs'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_dog
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/world/asia/china-leadership-transition/index.html
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
习近平 surprise.gif
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
Errr
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
xi jinping, sorry
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
rolling buried alive in china 2012 btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UMJESbwJg
― dylannn, Thursday, 15 November 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
XiMay be the face I can't forgetThe trace of pleasure or regretMay be my treasure or the price I have to payXiMay be the song that summer singsMay be the chill that autumn bringsMay be a hundred different thingsWithin the measure of a day
― ざっぴ (zappi), Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Hu are youHu HuHu Hu
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 November 2012 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
anyone have any recommendations for books on chinese history? i know there's thousands upon thousands of years of material, and i'm not quite sure where to start
― Spectrum, Saturday, 1 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
interested in a certain period?
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
i only have a vague notion of it right now. i guess i'd like to start with qin, han, and three kingdoms, and work my way through ming. i'm interested in the culture and civilization aspect, and always found china pretty damn fascinating.
― Spectrum, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
my focus is late imperial/modern china so i'm sure someone else can recommend better books on deep historical china but i'll throw out three
china's golden age: everyday life in the tang dynasty by charles benn. because the tang is the golden age and you need to read about the grandeur and supreme cultural development of yangzhou and xi'an during the tang.the confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in ming china by timothy brook-- absolutely 100% best book on ming china. divided by season, each season covering roughly a century. he charts the movement from agrarian society into advanced government/commercial powerhouse. i think this is a pretty common chinese history 101 book and everyone's read about the brick-- he uses the inscriptions on a brick to trace it back to a certain kiln, explains the system of paying taxes with labour, shows how the canal systems worked. lots of non-elite perspectives, but also talks about the ming tribute system, international relations. and check out the troubled empire by brook, which deals with the mongol invasion of china, the creation of the yuan dynasty, song dynasty loyalists, the cultural influence of the yuan on the song.if you're going to be reading about the ming, i guess i like return to dragon mountain: memories of a late ming man by jonathan spence, a history of the ming through the eyes of a literatus, lots of poetry and courtesans and bureaucracy.the imperial capitals of china by arthur cotterell does a good job at overview, by skipping through the various capitals of chinese dynastic regimes, goes from the semi-mythical shang to qing dynasty beijing.
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
these are all recent, too.
if you only read one: confusions of pleasure
― dylannn, Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
these books sound pretty cool, thanks. i love reading about what everyday life was like through history
― Spectrum, Sunday, 2 December 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
chinese ambassador on tv here notes that the graphic of china behind him is incomplete: no taiwan
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 21 December 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Quite an interesting piece on the Chinese economy and how it has been changing
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/nathan-sperber/the-mayor-economy
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 08:58 (one month ago) link
it was good. i liked too this nathan sperber piece on macro control: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/02/macro-control-making-sense-of-a-central-concept-in-chinese-economic-policy/.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 4 March 2024 10:28 (one month ago) link
dylan is hefei worth visiting?
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:30 (one month ago) link