China Rhyming

'History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme' - Mark Twain. A gallimaufry of random China history and research interests

Thursday, May 28, 2009

We have moved: Please visit chinarhyming.com!

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We are pleased to announce we are moving this site to its own domain: chinarhyming.com . Please go there from now on. New posts will no long...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Deviation Posting: Time for a Good Left-Wing Read

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The other day I had a meeting here in Shanghai with a visiting private equity type from America. He was extremely young in a sort of faux-do...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Shanghai Race Club - 75th Anniversary

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The one thing most people know about old Shanghai is that there was a race club and it was massively popular. A friend and another long...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Nazis on the Huang Pu

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That’s Shanghai magazine put together a series of features on Nazis in Shanghai (back in the 1930s and 1940s that is rather than any knock...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Old Cemeteries, Graveyards and Remains

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For some reason I’ve been thinking about old cemeteries in China recently (and did post about the Cimetière Française de Kilung ). Not sure...
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

The Gurkhas, Justice and a National Embarrassment

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It’s hard to be anything but disgusted with the British government’s attitude to the Gurkha’s and the pension row. The ...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

Nanjing Massacre Films

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Two films are doing the rounds at the moment concerned with the Nanjing Masscare of 1937 - Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death, from the ...
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As someone who divides their time pretty evenly writing about China now and China back then this seemed like a place to throw all the interesting bits that fall through the cracks somehow and never get used anywhere else. It's basically the stuff that doesn't get used in my writing about modern China or in the books I do about old China - i.e. probably of little interest to anyone but me and therefore ideally suited to an obscure blog up a dark cul-de-sac of the Internet.
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