From China in Transition blog: Just when a national competition for the best Chinese New Year greeting message texted through cell phone is about to announce the winner, some people in Guangzhou posted comments online calling on the public to refuse text messaging as a “cheap and lazy” way of the New Year greeting. As […]
NPR interviews scholar Jackie Armijo about the Chinese government’s relationship with Muslims in the wake of an order banning images of pigs as the Year of the Pig begins: As the year of the pig begins in China, the government bans any mention of pigs in TV ads. Is it truly a newfound sensitivity to […]
China scholar Charles W. Hayford wrote the following post on the Frog in a Well blog: The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the year of the Pig (or Boar) is “usually an […]
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