The new issue of the China Heritage Quarterly is now online, with a focus on Shanghai. Here’s some highlights: “A Vision of Future Ambition.” One of Sapajou’s comics from 1926 North-China Daily News Emily Hahn Does ‘All-Under-Heaven’ A Daniel Sanderson article about wild woman Emily ‘Mickey’ Hahn and...
Yuan Tengfei: The most awesome history teacher Yuan Tengfei is a Beijing middle school teacher whose charisma and controversial history lessons that circulate as online videos have won him the nickname "most awesome history teacher". He recently appeared in a video after a long period of silence...
Bibliographer and book collector, Miao Quansun The latest issue of China Heritage Quarterly is online. This issue is theme is explained by guest editor Duncan Campbell: dedicated to the Heritage of Books, Collections, and Libraries, ... also occasioned by an event worthy of commemoration but one which...
Shanghaiist has been living in this town for five years now, and while we often get the "哇！你是老上海了！“ ("Wow, you're an old Shanghai hand") remark, there are days when we think we actually moved here too late (sadistic thought, some might say). Although we have witnessed some pretty breathtaking changes...
This story dated October 12, 1964 comes from Michael Manning who's blogging from Xinjiang in The Opposite End of China . He found it while fiddling around with the The New York Times Archive which now allows subscribers to access news reports from as far back as 1851. Interesting look into the China...
Experts in Mongolian studies who have spent the last year compiling Genghis Khan's code of laws, which is believed to be the world's first constitution say the legendary Mongolian conqueror banned homosexual acts . Under article 48 of the code, the experts say, men who "committed sodomy shall be put...
Ok, whatever people might say about the Bund – tacky, over-priced – most are still damn glad it's there rather than not. It is, after all, the most enduring reminder of Shanghai's decadent international past. Consequently, when the paradigm of this past, the Peace Hotel , recently closed for its US$65m...