Category Archives: Traditions

Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death

Posted on 2012-10-05 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading →

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Impressions of Japan

Posted on 2012-09-29 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. After anti-Japanese demonstrations fired off around China, this week’s digest proposes to take a … Continue reading →

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Marriage prerequisites – virginity, house, fidelity

Posted on 2012-09-14 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s post is looking at marriage and relationships in contemporary China. An article … Continue reading →

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Education and critical thinking

Posted on 2012-09-07 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s post proposes to look at three recent articles exploring the connection between … Continue reading →

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The body is the capital of the revolution

Posted on 2012-09-02 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s post focuses on women’s bodies in China. An interview with cultural critic Zhang … Continue reading →

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The tears of animals

Posted on 2012-08-03 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. Pets are increasingly common in China, but how do Chinese people think of the relationship … Continue reading →

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Photos of northern Yunnan

Posted on 2012-06-30 by Jonah Kessel

Photos of Yunnan by Danwei contributor Jonah M. Kessel, a Beijing based freelance visual journalist working with the New York Times. See his web site here, follow him on Twitter here or keep up with his strange travel schedule at his blog. I spend a lot of … Continue reading →

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73,400 students register for the gaokao; 650,000 sweep tombs

Posted on 2012-04-09 by Allison Carol Goldman

The front page top headline of the Beijing Morning Post, April 3: “In Beijing, 73,400 people registered for the gaokao (the national college entrance exam).” This represents a decline in registrants, down from 76,000 last year. The article predicted, however, that university admissions … Continue reading →

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Spring Festival in Kedong, 2012

Posted on 2012-01-23 by C. Custer

I’ve never really understood Spring Festival. Sure, I know the traditions and the stories, but I must admit, I’ve never really felt it. The first year I was in China, I spent the holiday wracked with fever, hallucinating in my apartment as … Continue reading →

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