Tag Archives: history

Can you blame the post-eighties generation?

Posted on 2012-10-19 by Julien Leyre

This is the China Writing 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 takes a look at the Chinese Gen Y – generally known … Continue reading →

Posted in 1510 Digest, School and Education, Urban Culture and Cities | Tagged Cultural Revolution, Danwei.com, history, post 80s, post 90s, Taiwan | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in 1510 Digest, Traditions, Urban Culture and Cities | Tagged 1510, Danwei.com, economy, history, International, Japan, Nanjing, travel, war | Comments Off

Liu Jing and his comic book history of China

Posted on 2011-11-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Liu Jing (刘京) is a Beijing-born entrepreneur, designer and cartoonist. He recently published Understanding China Through Comics, a book for iPad and Kindle about Chinese history. Below is a brief Q&A with Liu, followed by an excerpt from his new book. … Continue reading →

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The pipa: How a barbarian lute became a national symbol

Posted on 2011-06-10 by James A. Millward

‘Playing the pipa behind the back’ is a special kind of Chinese gongfu that expresses flying in heaven at Dunhuang. [See image of pipa player from Mogao caves at Dunhuang] The road to industrialization with Chinese characteristics was taken by Mao Zedong after … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Books and Art | Tagged Central Academy of Music, Danwei.com, guqin, history, music, Musical Instruments, musicology, pipa, Strings | Comments Off

Chinese instruments and the creation of a national music

Posted on 2011-06-08 by Nick Frisch

Modern Chinese instruments are a lot like modern China: a disparate patchwork of various Parts forcibly cobbled into a Whole that, to hear some tell it, Always Was and Ever Shall Be. That is a bit of an exaggeration: no … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Books and Art | Tagged Danwei.com, Erhu, Gehu, guqin, history, Huqin, music, Musical Instument, pipa, Sheng | Comments Off

Chicken blood injections and other health crazes

Posted on 2010-10-13 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.

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