Chinese history

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/15/2020
  

  The Risky Journey That Saved One of China’s Greatest Literary Treasures

  by Janie Chang

  The story of the Siku Quanshu Wenlan Ge is inseparable from the story of people who risked all to protect a cultural legacy, from the librarian who sold off his house to the students who would not abandon the heavy boxes that slowed their travel.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/18/2020
  

  When Did People Start Eating in Restaurants?

  Historian Rebecca Spang's book "The Invention of the Restaurant" examines the French roots of dining out.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/8/2020
  

  Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story.

  A room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of tea and politics, from China to Britain and that “party” in Boston.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/30/20
  

  The real danger of coronavirus

  by Jessica Hauger

  Chinese and Chinese American people have served as scapegoats for infectious disease outbreaks and sanitation failures in the United States and around the world to particularly alarming effect.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/26/19
  

  Writer and Historian Jung Chang Profiled in The Atlantic: China’s ‘Most Dangerous Profession’

  Jung Chang is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of modern China. Her life spotlights the threat that writing still holds for the country’s rulers.

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/4/19
  

  Isaac Stone Fish: Where Do US-China Relations Go Next?

  by Chris Riback

  As the 2020 campaign heats up, several key questions will be asked and debated, including: How did we get here – and where do China and US-China relations go next?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/2/10
  

  After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself

  by Louisa Lim

  Young people question the value of knowledge, a victory for Beijing 30 years after the crackdown on student protests.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  In China, a Reuters Partner Blocks Articles on the Tiananmen Square Massacre

  China has made efforts to quash public mentions of the day when tanks and troops moved into the Beijing plaza and crushed student-led protests.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  30 Years After Tiananmen, ‘Tank Man’ Remains an Icon and a Mystery

  Three decades after the Chinese Army crushed demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square, “Tank Man” — the person who boldly confronted a convoy of tanks barreling down a Beijing avenue — is as much a mystery as ever.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  6/4/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes Special Exhibit on the 30th anniversary of the Massacre at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square

  Declassified Records Describe Attacks by Chinese Troops, Internal Official Debates, and U.S. Attempts to Keep U.S.-China Relations on Track.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  5/30/19
  

  The New Tiananmen Papers

  by Andrew J. Nathan

  Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/30/19
  

  Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness

  After three decades, Jian Liu decided to reveal images he took of the hopeful 1989 student movement and its bloody aftermath.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/3/19
  

  May Fourth, the Day That Changed China

  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

  Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

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• 5/7/19
  

  How Chinese History Restarted 100 Years Ago

  by Peter Zarrow

  On Sunday, May 4, 1919, some 3,000 students assembled at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Xi Praises a Student Protest in China. From 100 Years Ago.

  The May 4, 1919, protest against Western colonialism had inflamed Chinese nationalism and helped spread a wave of ideas rejecting Chinese tradition and hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/1/19
  

  Li Xueqin, Key Historian in China’s Embrace of Antiquity, Dies at 85

  For more than 20 years Mr. Li was deputy director and then director of the Institute of History, part of the Chinese Academy of Social Science — positions of unusual influence.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/29/19
  

  Xi’s China Is Steamrolling Its Own History

  by Pamela Kyle Crossley

  “Historical nihilism” is nothing more than a denial that the past is fundamentally a resource to be plundered by the present.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/19/19
  

  My Mother’s Secrets

  by Helen Zia

  She thought she was protecting her children by not telling us her harrowing tale of fleeing China.

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• SOURCE: Telegram
  1/15/19
  

  Trump’s Trade Policy Threatens US Consumer as Much as China

  by Paul Ropp

  Trump’s China policy ignores the complete interdependence of the US and Chinese economies. 

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• Macau: China's Unlikely Bridge to the Lusophone

  by Joyman Lee

  The view from Macau Fortaleza do Monte. Credit: Wiki Commons.One of the most memorable dates I have ever had was on the walls of a seventeenth-century fort. Located on a small lush hill in the middle of a Chinese city, in the September rain you could see and smell the warm waters of the tropical ocean. The cannons evoke the first Iberian intrusions into Asia, when southern European sailors -- essentially pirates or middlemen plying the lucrative trade between much larger Asian countries -- were the first Europeans to set foot in the country. To the south the powerful Malay sultanate of Melaka, a tributary state of the Ming, was the first to fall. Further east the Portuguese attempt to proselytize Japan -- resisted violently by the archipelago's warrior rulers -- also left deep marks on that country’s history. In Macau, the latest addition to China’s territory, Asia's mostly forgotten encounter with Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries finds beautiful expression in the city's forts and baroque architecture.