The China Beat

In yet another sign of the China-centered media hoopla certain to accompany this summer's Olympic Games, The New York Times started a b...

1. This BBC “Day in History” piece gives a feel for how the 1976 earthquake was covered. 2. Shanghaiist , which has had coherent as-it-happ...

There is an enormous amount of worthy coverage of the earthquake. If you have suggestions for other recommended reading, please post a comme...

Like many of the audience in China watching the round-the-clock CCTV broadcasts about the terrible earthquake in Sichuan , I thought back t...

Here in Taiwan people are following the news of the horrific Sichuan earthquake with deep sympathy and concern. This is especially true for ...

The China Beat editors would like to introduce a new feature: China Around the World . We have asked scholars, journalists, and graduate stu...

If you pay any attention to developments in Chinese publishing, even if only casually, you have probably come across one or more stories by ...

"Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no r...

Every once in a while, a book linked to China comes along that garners such widely varying reviews that I begin to wonder if the reviewers a...

A couple issues have been generating a great deal of media interest lately: continued coverage of the situation in Tibet, and the political ...

By Caroline Finlay Vietnam’s history has been intertwined with that of China for thousands of years, and it hasn’t all been pretty. Wave aft...

Two weeks ago, we published a list of websites that provide lesson plans and other resources for teaching on China. This week, we promised a...