On raw corruption, pp. 230-4.
Extended introduction to Chinese language features and functions, pp. 236-9.
Other margin notes, http://big1file.googlepages.com/nb-chinaroad
Selected bibliography
Pearl Buck [1931]. The Good Earth.
John Pomfret. 2006. Chinese Lessons: Five classmates and the story of the new China.
Wei-ming Tu, ed. 1991. The Living Tree: The changing meaning of being Chinese today.
John Flowers' detailed website one Sichuan village's life, http://xiakou.unc.edu
Moral Landscape in a Sichuan Mountain Village - a digital ethnography of place
Thursday, December 13, 2007
1937 - A Japanese Attack Before Pearl Harbor
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17110447&sc=emaf
radio story includes 1930s recording of Nanjing invasion 13 December 1937.
[aired 13 Dec 2007, NPR.org "Morning Edition"]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Rose-Colored Glasses on China?
With millions of students who want an American-style education (or an American diploma), China is a very attractive market for American colleges and universities that want to offer full degree programs abroad. Some institutions have been there for a long time — Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University this year marked the 20th anniversary of their joint degrees in international relations. New programs keep being announced. The State University of New York at Stony Brook announced a program this year. Kaplan Inc., the for-profit higher education company, announced a major expansion of its China campuses just last week.
That's the issue raised by a controversial report released in Britain Thursday that questions the rush by academics to China. Much of the thinking by academics in Britain about the changes in China and how they affect the international higher education market has been "alarmingly woolly," says the report, "British Universities in China: The Reality Beyond the Rhetoric." The report's introduction notes that "reportedly one UK vice chancellor or pro vice chancellor a week has been landing in Beijing or Shanghai to explore future partnership opportunities. Yet there is no overarching strategy about what UK higher education should be trying to achieve." Authors of the report — by the think tank Agora — said that the comments applied equally well to the American institutions whose presidents and provosts are flocking to China in droves as well...
full story, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/07/china
That's the issue raised by a controversial report released in Britain Thursday that questions the rush by academics to China. Much of the thinking by academics in Britain about the changes in China and how they affect the international higher education market has been "alarmingly woolly," says the report, "British Universities in China: The Reality Beyond the Rhetoric." The report's introduction notes that "reportedly one UK vice chancellor or pro vice chancellor a week has been landing in Beijing or Shanghai to explore future partnership opportunities. Yet there is no overarching strategy about what UK higher education should be trying to achieve." Authors of the report — by the think tank Agora — said that the comments applied equally well to the American institutions whose presidents and provosts are flocking to China in droves as well...
full story, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/07/china
blog ..confessions of a language fanatic
http://www.unhappymedium.com/ [Elizabeth Little] Special affection for Chinese examples.
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