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- The Chinese university: A primer for prospective foreign teachers
- The poverty of the institutional imagination: The case of Beijing’s moats and canals
- Questioning China’s “5,000 years” master trope
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- A little accident. A short story
- What you know, you know. A short story
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- There she blows! A short story
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Questioning China’s “5,000 years” master trope
The name “China” straddles two different entities, Zhongguo (中國), the Chinese state, and Zhonghua (中華), the Chinese nation. The state, i.e., the Chinese Mainland, consists of one dominant ethnic group, the Han, and 50 or so non-Han ethnicities or “Minority … Continue reading
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Tagged brainwashing, China, Chinese education, civilization, ethnocentrism, propaganda
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