Rather like the special relationship the United States and United Kingdom enjoy (and that many of my British friends disparaged), there are special relationships in Asia, too. I’ve been enjoying Jonathan Fenby’s massive Modern China: The fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present. One thing I found enlightening is his explanation [...]

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Seeing if TwitterFeed’s reassuring “Feed parsed okay” is true, as I want to set up feeds from this China blog to Twitter. It sounds great: I can tag or categorize in a way that sends some posts one way, other posts to other places. I have registered China_a2z as the Encyclopedia of China Twitter page, [...]

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What the heck are Uyghurs and how do you pronounce the word? I’ve been helping people with pronunciation all week and been surprised by how many people are paying attention to the new stories. This is a good chance to show some of the insightful, expert coverage in the Encyclopedia of China, and a good [...]

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