Another article from the Christian Science Monitor about changing attitudes in China. In this one, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about changing perspectives of history in Shanghai:
It is obvious that China is a radically different place than it was 20 years ago. But it is equally clear that not everything about the country has been transformed. The tricky part is figuring out which things deserve to be put in the “dramatically altered” category and which belong in the “surprisingly unchanged” one.
Some calls are easy: China’s global economic significance goes in the first column, while the Communist Party’s enduring monopoly on power goes in the second. But other calls are tougher. For example, in what category do Chinese ideas about the past fall? [Full text]