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Blood & Treasure: authoritarian deliberation
Modern authoritarianism is a basically centrist proposition; bound up with and justified by a combination of patriotism and performance legitimacy rather than ideology.
JapanFocus
Ming conviction that Taiwan was not part of this domain was rooted in the traditional conception of China as a territory bounded by natural geographic features
The China Beat: Coming Distractions: Speaking to History
The Goujian story—and the woxin changdan ("sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall") proverb derived from it— was as familiar to Chinese school children as the biblical stories of Adam and Eve or David and Goliath are to American youngsters
The China Beat: Chinese Intellectuals and the Problem of Xinjiang, Part 2
Wang’s openness to dialogue and public discussion of his ideas, without any taboos or prerequisites, is an important step
The China Beat: It's Just History: Patriotic Education in the PRC
“It’s just…patriotic education,”
Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap
people here want to start a nonmetaphorical revolution by creating their own independent nations. In the middle of the ocean. On prefab floating platforms.
Slashdot | The Google Navy
Is Google preparing to launch its own Navy? In its just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center, Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured
Far Eastern Economic Review | Mongolia's China Syndrome
Mr. Gansuren claims Blue Mongolia has more than 2,000 members... and that the group has access to weapons.
Cover story: 'China's new intelligentsia' by Mark Leonard | Prospect Magazine March 2008 issue 144
From this laboratory of social experiments, a new world-view is emerging that may in time crystallise into a recognisable Chinese model—an alternative, non-western path for the rest of the world to follow.
Gu Wenda's Homepage
Chinese artist responsible for the UN Project, involving lots of hair. Also does fake seal script.
Big Red Checkbook
"That is simply today's world. The modern world. The globalized world. I'm not sure we can completely blame the Chinese for that."
How George Bush became the new Saddam | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features
Sometimes I think Iraq doesn’t exist at all. It’s just a series of preconceptions, a country invented to keep the West’s intelligentsia busy arguing and pontificating, fighting over facts about a place that is so clearly a work of fiction.
Taiwan in the Chinese Imagination, 17th–19th Centuries
by author of Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895 (2004)
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Trade dilemma on China-Kazakh border
BBC discovers Central Asian fears of Chinese invading hordes. Doesn't have quote from Uzbek professor who told me Chinese were like cockroaches, though.
Inca - Machu Picchu - Peru - Ancient Civilizations - Yale University - National Geographic Society - New York Times
Peru says the Bingham objects were sent to Yale on loan and their return is long overdue. Yale demurs.
The Philosophy of Democracy by Lanxin Xiang (August 2004) - Library of Congress
"The fact that the first Western theory accepted by the Chinese was Social Darwinism has had dire consequences," said Xiang.
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Scans of China's Century of Humiliation Atlas
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