Ever since Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary 25 years ago last week, the world has compared China’s successful economic reforms, which were first set into motion in late 1978 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, with the Soviet Union’s and then Russia’s largely unsuccessful attempts to overhaul its economy.
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![To All You "China Bloggers" Out There: There Is *No Such Thing* As An "America Blogger"](http://www.haohaoreport.com/files/imagecache/story_thumb/stories/Mei_Ahn_Deng_0.jpg "To All You "China Bloggers" Out There: There Is *No Such Thing* As An "America Blogger"")
We desperately need a new terminology for those people interested in blogging about China, Sinology, or other things related to the PRC in general, but who don’t have any basis on which to make “expert” claims.
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Mark quotes liberally from Peter Hessler's second book, Oracle Bones, with this latest blog post about why foreign journalists continue to make mistakes in relation to China.
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During Tibet's history, it has existed as a part of successive Chinese dynasties. At various times from the 1640s until 1950s, a government nominally headed by the Dalai Lamas, a line of spiritual leaders, ruled a large portion of the Tibetan region. During most of this period, the Tibetan administration was subordinate to the Chinese empire of the Qing Dynasty.
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The term "soft power" is being frequently used in the Chinese media these days. I can't help but wonder whether the term and its underlying meaning is fully understood by the authorities, or whether they have any clue as to why "Avatar" can beat "Confucius" in the hearts and minds of the Chinese audience.
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Here's a post I jotted down yesterday on LLW about some thoughts I've been having about what the one-child policy means for the current and next generations of Chinese and how they celebrate Spring Festival. 春节快乐 HHRers.
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As an American who speaks Chinese and a high school Chinese teacher, it was with some interest that I read the NYT’s most recent Room For Debate blog entry. With the caveat that, if my experience when I was asked to write something for RfD was any indication, the editors are looking from specific things from the people who write their perspectives, lets jump in.
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I learned the Chinese word for deport the other day. Contextually. As in, “You should be happy that we are only going to fine you 5,000 kuai, and not deport you.” That was what the uniformed man at the public security bureau said.
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The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
read more »Earlier this week, courts in Xinjiang sentenced six men to death and a seventh to life imprisonment for murder, arson and robbery during riots that swept the region in early July, leaving nearly 200 persons dead. Paul Mozur, a Taiwan-based correspondent, traveled through the area shortly after the riots. This is the first of a three-part report.
read more »A lot of great quotes in this one..."it is said that one in every six people on earth lives there, thus making China the Kevin Bacon of the global census. "
read more »A hilarious rundown of Thursday's PRC 60th Anniversary parade ("bizarre mish-mash of Communist kitsch and Freudian military wankfest"), interspersed with lines from The Hangover.
read more »"Just as I was getting my long hair into a bubbly lather, I heard the blood curdling screams coming from the other side of the shower room. “Waiguoren! Waiguoren! Lai ba! Lai ba!” Which loosely translated means, “Hey ya’ll! Come! Come and see the foreigner!”
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A poignant letter from a Chinese college student to Barack Obama pleading for help in securing the release of Dr. Xu Zhiyong, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was recently arrested on trumped up tax charges.
read more »Remember when you were young there was always that one kid who tried too hard to be liked and would give away his things in an attempt to make friends? People eventually ended up using him for his toys or video games etc. Chinese people are like that kid.
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For the most part I’ve been pretty lucky in China…well, except for getting deported, requiring 25 stitches in my face thanks to Chinese hospitality, nearly getting my juggular cut by a crazed Chinese female. OK, actually, I haven’t really been that lucky at all.
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Sometimes you realize that there are fundamental differences between Western and Chinese appreciations of "honesty". One of my favorite examples of these different approaches to truth-telling was when a Chinese friend of mine told me that his parents instructed him as a child not to be "too honest."
Shocked, I asked for clarification, "wait a minute, your parents TOLD you to lie?"
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One of the hot topics on the Chinese internet is the Post-90s generation (people who were born after 1990, Chinese teenagers). The general impression is Post 90s kids are “out of control”, “behaving badly”. They “have metal problems” and are “engaging in sexual activities way too early” etc…
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Okay, I suppose that the title sounds a little more exciting than the actual story. But it’s still true. Yes, I was kicked out of China. I must say that this experience has showed me just how much beauracratic hell the millions of immigrants, workers, and exchange students have to go through in my own country everyday.
read more »Hilarious: "Riots in Tibet last year. Riots in Xinjiang this year. There is one lesson that we can learn from all of this: Old people are dangerous. Incited youths listen to and heed the words of virtually anyone the age of their grandparents. Young people are not motivated by ethnic hatred, lack of jobs or the perception that they are left out of their country’s economic development.
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