We all know that there are exactly 56 ethnic groups in China, yet in the 1953-54 census Yunnan alone reported more than 200. An excerpt from Tom Mullaney's Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China offers a bit of insight into these mathematics: In the first census of the People’s Republic … Continue reading China Census Time: As 2010 Count Begins, a Look back at how Ethnicity was Recorded in 1953-54
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Holden Caulfield and the Chinese Shakespeare Scholar
"Chinese youth, growing up in our Socialist Motherland and benefiting from the enthusiastic care and concern of organizations such as the communist Party, Youth League and Young Pioneers, possess high-minded Communist ideals, and a rich, colorful and dynamic intellectual life. Therefore, reading a book like Catcher in the Rye, and comparing one's own fortunate living … Continue reading Holden Caulfield and the Chinese Shakespeare Scholar
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