Tag Archives: traditional culture

Screw the elderly, I’m keeping my bus seat

Posted on 2008-10-08 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post (扬子晚报): Should younger people give up their bus seats for the elderly?

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Reviving traditional culture through the pocketbook

Posted on 2008-06-04 by Joel Martinsen

Twelve scholars want Qu Yuan on the Renminbi.

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“Jia Baoyu! You are the real murderer!”

Posted on 2008-04-11 by Joel Martinsen

Murder in the Red Mansions (紅楼夢の殺人) by Ashibe Taku’s (芦辺拓) gets blasted for distorting traditional Chinese culture. Also, lots of other distortions of the Red Mansions.

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The soft power of parody

Posted on 2007-08-22 by Joel Martinsen

An essay by Tang Yu (唐虞) in the Ta Kung Pao (大公报) on how historical revisionism harms a country’s soft power.

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