Strange-Horizons-Fund-Quifan-English As read by Anaea Lay
君子不器
Strange-Horizons-Fund-Quifan-English As read by Anaea Lay
China’s “Girl’s Love” Subculture Worships Female Celebrities and Lesbian Love Stories Confusing, badly written essay but hey, learning new vocab: This new subculture is called “Ji Quan” (姬圈). Rather than using the Chinese character 基 (“ji”) that typically denotes “gay,” Ji Quan uses a homophone, 姬（“ji”); 圈 “quan” relates to a circle or community. On…
The Thin Red Line of China’s National Feelings via Reddit (As others point out, great infographic idea but poorly researched/executed).
Key Intellectuals | The China Story Rong Jian 荣剑 Rong Jian 荣剑 was a rising star in the 1980s in the then much-prized field of Marxism Studies before 1989 derailed his academic career. Like many disillusioned intellectuals of the time, he turned away from scholarship and entered the business world. In the late 1980s, Rong…
From Illusion to Empire: Chuang on The Creation of the Chinese Economy With the largest navy, the most advanced technology, and unprecedented agricultural productivity, the Ming Dynasty remained the most extensive and powerful political structure in the world. In every way it matched and surpassed Europe, and the question of China’s “failed” transition to capitalism…
via Global Voices
Yongle Zhang: No Forbidden Zone in Reading?. New Left Review 49, January-February 2008. “For a decade, the monthly review Dushu has published some of China’s most incisive debates on the country’s culture and economy. Zhang Yongle’s survey relates the journal’s trajectory to the PRC’s dramatic development course and ruptures within its intelligentsia…”