Occasionally I sift through photos taken by friends who had recently been to China. This is a portrait of Mr. Zhang taken by my friend Ming while in Shanghai. (The same friend whose Tiananmen photo I used in a previous post.) In his words, this is the story behind the image: … [Read more...] about A changing China
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The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
After contemplating a while what to write for Day one of 2011, I thought it worthwhile to simply remind everyone what the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence are. They form the bedrock of Chinese foreign policy. Chinese President Hu Jintao's 2011 New Year's address reaffirmed China's adherence to them: China will develop friendly cooperation with all other countries on … [Read more...] about The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
2010, a recap at Hidden Harmonies
As the year is coming to a close, we want to take this opportunity to recap and to tell you interesting information about our Hidden Harmonies China blog. Allen and I launched this blog on February 14, 2010, coinciding with the lunar new year of the tiger. We felt most of the English language “China” blogs out there offered basically the same narrative as the Western media, … [Read more...] about 2010, a recap at Hidden Harmonies
Translation: “Being Chinese is tiring, but being Chinese abroad is even more tiring”
I recently came across this short essay at MITBBS and found the original at bbs.cnxz.com.cn. It was written by a forum user, "马丁" yesterday. The essay raised a bunch of questions for me. How far do we push ourselves in pursuit of fame and fortune? Here is the essay in Chinese followed by my translation. What are your thoughts? Also, I hope someone helps translate the text … [Read more...] about Translation: “Being Chinese is tiring, but being Chinese abroad is even more tiring”
Wikileaks.org: Secret US Embassy Cables
Wikileaks made history on October 22, 2010, for making public the "391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), documenting the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army." They are making headlines again, bigger headlines I think, for starting to release … [Read more...] about Wikileaks.org: Secret US Embassy Cables