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I'm currently reading Richard Burger's book Behind the Red Door: Sex in China. It is a very interesting look at a subject that is rarely discussed with expats (or anyone else).
Tag Archives: Fei Xiaotong
Reconsidering the campaign to suppress counterrevolutionaries
The China Quarterly recently released it’s top ten most downloaded articles for free. Over the next few weeks I’ll summarize and comment on a few of these great articles (and save you 20+ pages of reading). Reconsidering the Campaign to Suppress … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged China, China Quarterly, Communist Party of China, counterrevolutionaries, Fei Xiaotong, Korean War, Mao, Mao Zedong, Peng Zhen, Tiananmen Square
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An incredible lack of integrity
It’s no secret that journalists working for Xinhua, Global Times, and People’s Daily, are part of an effort to distribute messages from the Party. I read these sources daily, and have built up a degree of tolerance to articles about how America … Continue reading
The importance of a hometown
One of my first posts on this blog focused on the idea of being a waiguoren (外国人), an “outside country person”, and the fact that a foreigner can never be fully accepted in China. Today though, we’ll be looking at … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Culture & Language, Life in China
Tagged anthropology, Asia, Beijing, China, Fei Xiaotong, Guangdong, Liuzhou, Migrant worker, sociology
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Seeing Red in China 