The China Beat

After a few weeks of vacation, China Beat is back to posting (though we considered making an 8 percent reduction in our future posts in hon...

By Ken Pomeranz “Self-promotion Saturday?” My mother would be appalled, but times (and media cultures) change, and I do have a few things t...

I've recently been lucky enough to be asked to do a couple of radio interviews to promote Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragm...

We were delighted to come across a piece by Friend of the Blog Michael Meyer (called " About That Book Advance... ") in last week...

Last Wednesday, Amazon dropped the price of China in 2008 to its lowest yet--just over $20 (the price has been fluctuating over the past cou...

A few reminders about upcoming events involving China Beat contributors. Shanghai Jeff Wasserstrom will be speaking about his new book, Glo...

China Beat niks Jeff Wasserstrom and James Farrer and friend of the blog Andrew Field will be presenting this week at a March 12-14 conferen...

You can find a new interview with Jeff Wasserstrom at Shanghai City Weekend , in anticipation of the Shanghai International Literary Festi...

Tis the season of book festivals, at least around here. A number of China Beat contributors will be speaking at events in the coming months...

Robert Buswell, Association for Asian Studies President, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies  (and a  China ...

There will be three China Beat contributors participating in an upcoming conference at the University of Southern California. On January 30...

I'm writing this in 2008, but when you read it, the calendar will tell you it is 2009.  That wouldn't ordinarily be particularly not...

By Paul Katz As China ascends to its place as a leading nation on the world stage, questions have arisen concerning the role of its legal sy...

Regular readers of this blog may think it is a bit redundant for me to do a "Self-promotion Saturday" post about Global Shanghai, ...

The weekend after Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, but if you'd like to avoid the crush at the malls, Chi...

As part of our continuing follow-up on "China Beatniks in Beijing," we wanted to share with you a couple links to articles on the ...

One of the themes in our forthcoming book, China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance , is how the year 2008 came to symbolize more than ju...

While our forthcoming blog-to-book, China in 2008 , contains some content that regular China Beat readers will find familiar because versio...

Last month, we announced our forthcoming book , China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance , to be published by Rowman & Littlefield in...

This Self-Promotion Saturday will be the first of a series devoted to a book project: China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. Rowman ...