Interesting description of the incredible differences between the Beijing of the 1970s vs Beijing today.

A collection of headlines from the New York Times archive between March 1933, when news of a Muslim uprising in western China reached New York, and January 1934, when an independent East Turkestan was established with it's capital in Kashgar. Those must have been heady days for the vile splittists and saboteurs who to this very day have not resigned themselves to defeat!

Hundreds of thousands of Shanghai teenagers are sent to Xinjiang in the early 1960's. A few years later, they're fueling the chaos and violence of the Cultural Revolution. (With archive articles from the NY Times.)

This is definitely not 好好; in fact, it is 真不好。

Dave's Wagon takes a Chinese friend to an anti-war protest that reveals itself to be blissfully ignorant of a certain "war of resistance".