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玉历宝钞：return of the repressed, reworked for the current age
old museum entrance Originally uploaded by maryannodonnell Recently I have noticed that buddhist iconography is seeping into local shrines, which have been growing stronger this past decade. At the...
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celebrating
Yang Qian, our florist and his son. Much happiness throughout Shenzhen. Children play, families stroll, and friends meet for dinners and laughter. Our florist has been exceptionally busy, bringing in...
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the generation show
Currently, Shenzhen satellite tv is broadcasting “The Generation Show (年代秀),” a trivia game show based on Shenzhen’s four generations – Maoist, 80s, 90s, new millennium. Their advertising caught my eye...
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mapping ignorance
Was conversing friends about political succession since Mao and how to interpret reports coming out of Beijing and Guangzhou with respect to Shenzhen’s political status and symbolic valence within the...
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cultural revolutionaries? bo xilai, mao zedong and populist politics in china
According to a politically savvy friend, if anyone has a chance to democratize China, it will be a leader like Bo Xilai because 1. he had the support of the people; 2. he had support within the Party;...
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mini-series plot recap (by country and episode length)
Television dramas remind us that love is cross-culturally a means of negotiating gender inequality, but that is expressed through culturally specific forms of unhappiness and resolution there of. My...
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what does china mean to you?
Currently circulating on we chat, another of those punny jokes that do political analysis so well: How do you pronounce the English word “China”? The single man says “Where’s my wife?” The lover says,...
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what is the price of a human life?
If my friends are to be believed, doctors occupy the same hated position in China that lawyers occupy in the United States; they are the white-collar workers who represent all that is wrong with the...
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situated knowledge, strategic investments, and avian flu [again]
More evidence that China and the United States really are the same country; my husband wants to invest in the US, while my father wants to invest in China because [drum roll, please] both believe that...
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click this
The internet confuses us into thinking that everything we need to know can be found in one place, such as the Shenzhen Life Net (深圳生活王), where all sorts of information and experiences are just a click...
View Articlecrazy rich asians / material girl mix-mash
So I watched Crazy Rich Asians online and came away thinking: billionaire rom-com with Asian-American characteristics. If you like billionaire fantasies and think money grows on Chinese trees, its a...
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