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Tag Archives: book
Jasper Becker’s City of Heavenly Tranquility
Many foreigners who lived in old Beijing and succumbed to its charms became more Chinese than the Chinese, preferring a fantasy China to the real one. Danwei publishes an extract from Jasper Becker’s new book on Beijing: City of Heavenly Tranquility (Penguin and OUP) describing an enduring phenomenon.
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China: Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White
Michael Rank writes about a new guide to China’s museums. The museums discussed range from archaeology to sex, tap water to the Cultural Revolution.
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Zhang Lijia: Socialism is Great!
Zhang Lijia is an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing.
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Mr Wu and Family, by Pallavi Aiyar
One of communism’s lingering legacies in China was a basic belief in the dignity of labour and to me it was this belief that created the broadest gulf between India and China; a chasm ultimately much harder to bridge than that of GDP growth rates or flashy infrastructure.
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An Indian perspective on China: Pallavi Aiyar
Both China and India are experimenting with economic reforms although the pace and scope of these reforms differs. One of the greatest lacunae in India is administrative reform, so that we have a bloated administration that is not held to account for its shoddy implementation of legislation intended to help the poor. In China on the other hand, it’s the lack of political reform that hampers accountability.
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Bomb, Book and Compass book review
We just ploughed through Simon Winchester’s new ‘Bomb, Book and Compass – Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China’ – boy, do we want our money back!
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