My China Road

This blog will chart my progress in learning about the history, language, people and contemporary culture of China. Under the auspices of the Confucius Institute at Pace University I traveled to China with several faculty colleagues in summer '11. I began this blog to discuss my preparations for the trip and the China Seminar at Pace. The Seminar ended in fall 2011, but my curiosity about China continues.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

He Jiahong and His "Detective" Hong Jun--Contemporary Chinese Detective Fiction

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After long silence...Happy Year of the Rooster! This article on He Jiahong and his fictional "detective" character, Hong Jun, will...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

More Complicated Than You Thought--Leslie T. Chang on China's Factory Workers

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Chang's TED talk came around well after the publication of her fascinating and eye-opening book, Factory Girls (See my January 2011 pos...

Penetrating the Great Wall of Chinese Language--TED Talk

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Or, more specifically, Chinese characters.  I have attempted to use this mnemonic technique in my own studies and have hardly gotten beyond ...

Faculty Seminar 2011 Pace University Confucius Institute

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Pace graduate student, Yan Zhang, made this video giving an account of the Faculty Seminar (2011) at Pace University's Confucius Institu...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Deborah Poe’s Hélène: Weaving in France, Dreaming of China

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Deborah Poe's new novella in verse, Hélène , is both exact and dreamy. In powerful, rhythmic words and images of amazing beauty, she dra...
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I've recently moved from New York to New Orleans where I will continue my viewing, reading, writing and teaching, though in a much hotter environment. Tweeting as an unabashed liberal @ReelNOLA
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