The China Beat

This piece originally appeared at Blogcritics , and re-appears here with permission of the author. By Xujun Eberlein 1. A proprietary approa...

China Beat has been in operation now for a full year. And what a year! We started this blog with the inkling that 2008 might be eventful, i...

In the midst of this year's bitter winter, a glimmer of hope shines through: the Lunar New Year is rapidly approaching: New Year's E...

Note: these books appear in no particular order since all are excellent. 1. Joan Judge, The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, a...

The last year is gone, and 2009 predictions are rolling in. Here are a few of our favorite 2008 wrap-ups and 2009 predictions from the past ...

The Top Ten Things You Probably Don't Know About China's Celebrated Actor By Claire Conceison During the final three years of his li...

By Peter Zarrow I want to share some impressions of a book that the sinologically inclined (like me) might otherwise ignore. Big White Lie ,...

Several China Beat contributors have just returned from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held this year in New Yo...

For quite some time, the online journal Japan Focus has been moving toward covering Asia more generally, and recently it made that shift of...

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...

China Beat will be running a series of 2008 retrospectives over the coming weeks--pieces that both look back at events of the year (some we...

A Controversy over a Beijing Olympic Float for the 2008 Pasadena Rose Parade By Hongmei Li While the Tournament of Roses is busy preparing f...