刀郎和云朵的声音太美了! 下面是他们唱的老歌: "十送红军." 我小的时侯听过这首歌. 不知道是那一年代的. 你认识吗？长征时候的红军真正了不起. … [Read more...] about “十送红军”
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The Tragicomedy of Errors: China, British Imperialism, and the Opium Wars
Julia Lovell, in her new book The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, finds something funny in the tragedy Great Britain has many reasons to feel great about itself. Its empire was the largest in history and covered over a fifth of the world's population. It had more Asian and African colonies than any other European power. It came, it saw, it divided, and it … [Read more...] about The Tragicomedy of Errors: China, British Imperialism, and the Opium Wars
To the Victorian British Empire, Hong Kong was a ‘notch’
Every June 4th, the British press tries to indoctrinate the view that Hong Kong was a grand and benevolent design in "freedom and democracy" under threat from Mainland China. There was never such a design. As perspectivehere points out for us in the book, "Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese," by Law Wing Sang, who teaches at Lingnan University … [Read more...] about To the Victorian British Empire, Hong Kong was a ‘notch’
Philippines, China, UNCLOS and the South China Seas
Recently, we hear a growing chorus how the China - Philippines dispute in the South China Seas ought to be settled by binding arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). We already have dealt with some of the political dimensions of this (see, e.g., our South China Seas tag), and I won't rehash them here. But I do want to bring up a couple of … [Read more...] about Philippines, China, UNCLOS and the South China Seas
More on China’s territorial disputes (with Japan).
I'd like to give people a heads up on the accessible work from two outstanding legal scholars specializing in international maritime law and especially China's territorial disputes. Many may already know Professor Jerome Cohen who has down excellent work not on developing the rule of law within China's legal system but in teaching law to Chinese law students. His academic … [Read more...] about More on China’s territorial disputes (with Japan).