The China Beat

We've published a few pieces lately on China's coming water crisis, including Ken Pomeranz's " China's Water Woes ...

Part II ( Read Part I here ) By Philip J. Cunningham “Tiananmen,” whispers Chai Ling. “What?” I ask, comprehending without comprehension. “I...

By A. Tom Grunfeld Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam, Produced by Richard Bradley, BBC/Arts and Entertainment Networks co-production, 1995. 50 minutes....

The China Beat is very slowly beginning to co-sponsor real events. Our first is this coming Friday. Friday April 24, 2009, 2:00—3:30, in HI...

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

(Part One) Understanding jokes in another language is often the highest test of fluency, based as they often are on puns and insider cultura...

Over the past year-plus, China Beat has run several pieces related to the 1989 protests. For readers who may have missed them originally (o...

Philip J. Cunningham was a participant and observer of the events in Beijing in 1989. Now Cunningham has a forthcoming book, Tiananmen Moon:...

Some China Beat contributors have mentioned to us that they’ve been receiving requests from journalists and teachers for resources to turn ...

A friend of the blog forwarded to us information about a current exhibition in Shanghai, "Beijing Sixty Six," which features start...

By Angilee Shah In the land of news-meets-the-Internet, China has been fertile soil for very interesting blogs by journalists. There's E...

With the anniversaries of the 1959 (and 2008) Tibetan Uprisings just past, Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism has been much in the news in the past ...