Old North Whale = 老北鲸 Lǎo Běi Jīng ≈ 老北京 Lǎo Běijīng. Tracing the tangled roots of modern China’s ‘Chineseness’ across history, culture, and art.
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Zhuangzi Was Never Laozi
Laozi and Zhuangzi did not belong to the same school. They remained separate lineages for centuries after their deaths. They wrote for different readers, pursued incompatible ends, and disagreed on nearly every foundational concept they sha...
Why China's Ethnic Minorities Speak Mandarin
Recently I heard a claim that surprised me: Xinjiang once ran one of the best bilingual education systems in the world. Most people are aware of the controversial policies of recent years promoting Mandarin as the common language in ethnic...
A Book to Burn: The story of a 400-year-old banned book
Two years after Giordano Bruno burnt in Rome. A heretic in Chinese history cut his throat in a Beijing jail, in 1602. He had been arrested on the charge of “daring to advocate a disordered Way, deluding the age, deceiving the people.” 敢倡亂道，...
How Mandarin Became Standard Chinese
Chinese history holds two opposing views on Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), the first emperor of China. He was the man who unified the country in 221 BCE, standardizing currency, axle widths, and, above all, the written script: 书同文 (shū tóng wén). The...
Will AI Become Your Delegate in Democracy?
How local governance experiments in China preview the future of automated representation
A team of AI and sociology researchers at Renmin University of China (RUC) recently interviewed 92 residents of a Beijing urban community for two hour...
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