Why Chinese thought matters
From the outside, it's easy to think that all Chinese intellectuals fall neatly into the category of dissidents or propagandists. In fact, there's a host of public intellectuals that the West largely ignores who are actively engaged in debating their country's future. In this month's podcast, Davi…
Indo-Pacific Affairs Podcast - Episode 2
In this episode, Air University's Dr. Jared McKinney interview Dr. David Ownby, professor of history at the University of Montreal and editor of the blog Reading the China Dream.
Music from: RL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Shamil_Elvenheim/strolling_through_electronic_spaces/08_-_Shamil_Elv…
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who runs the excellent ReadingTheChinaDream.com website — a trove of translations of writings by mainstream Chinese intellectuals. David talks about the website’s mission and about tells about his recent three…
China’s Spiritual Revival and the Rise (and Fall) of Falun Gong — with Ian Johnson
For quick navigation:
China’s qiqong fever
Chasing the Falun Gong beat in Beijing and around China
Winning the Pulitzer
Recommended Readings:
David Ownby, 1996, Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China, Standford Universit
Ian Johnson, 2004, Wild Grass, Pantheon
David A. Palm…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan.
Self as Method provides a manifesto of intell…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan.
Self as Method provides a manifesto of intell…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan.
Self as Method provides a manifesto of intell…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan.
Self as Method provides a manifesto of intell…
Why China Waited Three Years to Ban Falun Gong
On July 22nd, 1999, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong. The order came from the Ministry of
Civil Affairs — the department that registers clubs — and the legal ground it gave, first, was
that the group had never registered.
Three years earlier, the state had already banned Falun Gong's book…
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