# David Ownby

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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, David…

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_Elve…

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. Palme…

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 intelle…

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 intelle…

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 intelle…

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 intelle…

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 books…