History

Notes from China's most noteworthy Warlord, blogging at you straight outta 1941.  Everything you ever wanted to know about outsmarting Mao, frustrating Jiang, cuckolding Liu, and killing peasants.

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In February 1972, Dr Vitaly A. Rubin, a Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Rubin was Jewish, educated in the orthodox tradition of his people. Following his visa application, he was pressured into resigning his position at the Institute, his [...]

JR: Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly is the authoritative expert on issues like Buddhism, Falun Gong, India, imperialism, the righteousness of the Chinese Communist Party, science, Taiwan, Taoism, Tibet, and the calamitous way Western media steer otherwise happy, nice and peaceful people into terrorist madness. Thank you very much for bestowing this opportunity for an interview [...]

American expat, retired, part time teacher, my experience in China for the past two years.  Opinions, news, musings of an uneducated, ignorant, but still learning "Old Man."

Thomas H. Hahn:
In 1953, Beijing’s first urban planning master plan was presented. It would have a rather profound impact on the design and the functioning of the “socialist capital of the world”, as Beijing was hailed at the time. The designs displayed here, drafted by the Huabei zhishu sheji gongsi 华北直属设计公司, one of the most [...]

From underthejacaranda:
An article published in the latest edition of Yanhuang Chunqiu (炎黄春秋) is said to have infuriated a former CCP leader, prompting speculation that the esteemed academic journal will be the next victim of China’s notorious censorship regime.  According to Yazhou Zhoukan 亚洲周刊 (used to be the Chinese edition of Asiaweek and  is now a [...]

The following is a translation of an open letter by 49 - or 65 - China scientists *), publicists and politicians in Germany. They refer to an initial open letter written by Chinese dissidents, by German authors et al which is the topic in my post of November 14.
Then follows a link to and a quote from a [...]

Chinese dissidents living in Germany wrote an open letter to Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, on September 13. They complained about Germany’s international radio station Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany) and its China coverage.
Their criticism targeted the station’s Chinese service and its then deputy department manager Zhang Danhong. Signed by a number of people from [...]

70% of the foreign ministry’s records dating from 1961 to 1965 have been unclassified and made accessible to the public. That is the biggest share of any set of files having been declassified to date. Chinese nationals and foreigners can access the files at the foreign ministry once they provide a letter of introduction from their [...]

“I’ve looked recently at some of the research findings about attitudes to international affairs in America and Europe, and the thing which is most encouraging is the finding that the majority of Americans, even after the Iraq war, want Europe to play a larger part in sharing in world leadership. They even want that when [...]