Index CEO reflects on the changes wrought by the fall of the Berlin Wall as part of #AftertheWall
By Jodie Ginsberg / 11 July, 2014
After the Wall panelists.
Martin Roth, Kate Maltby, Sebastion Borger, David Edgar, Tomasz Kitlinski and Timothy Garton Ash.
In 1977, the Russian dissident Alexander Ginzburg — whose detention and sentencing almost a Continue reading
Jodie Ginsberg: The new dissidents已关闭评论
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By AMY QIN JULY 17, 2014 4:47 AMJuly 17, 2014 7:15 am
Is Superman, depicted here in a mural in Beijing, a weapon being deployed to turn Chinese away from their own heroes?Credit Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency
Tensions between the United States and China over Continue reading
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
I stumbled across the first four of these eBook specials earlier today, and thought I’d share the information. With the UK and elsewhere paying a lot of
Penguin Books’ China eSpecials – World War I, History & Politics已关闭评论
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Tagged China eSpecials, Penguin, World War I
By Vicky Baker / 17 June, 2014
Index on Censorship magazine: summer issue 2014
In the summer issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Continue reading
Europe after the Berlin Wall: Latest issue已关闭评论
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Tagged Berlin Wal, Europe
Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai British to fight the Kaiser’s forces in Europe, and the story of the city they left behind. Continue reading
Getting stuck in for Shanghai已关闭评论
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Tagged First World War, Robert Bickers, Shanghai
Chinese analysts should stop asking China to follow in the footsteps of the USSR.
By Yang Hengjun
June 18, 2014
Right now there’s an interesting phenomenon: whenever something happens in China, there will always Continue reading
by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 29, 2014
Song Binbin, a former Red Guard, officially apologizes…
Song Binbin and Mao
Song Binbin pins a Red Guard armband on Mao Zedong, Aug. 18, 1966. Photo via WantChinaTimes. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Also Sprach the Puppet-Song Binbin, a former Red Guard, officially apologizes…已关闭评论
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Tagged Bian Zhongyun, Red Guard, Song Binbin
4 June 2014
In Western spheres of influence, WWI is also known as The Great War for Civilization, but it’s unlikely that the Chinese men recruited to supplement the French, British and American war efforts would have viewed it as such. Continue reading
Book Review: “The Chinese Labour Corps”已关闭评论
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Tagged Chinese Labour, First World War, Mark O’Neill
