Taiwan – The Heart of Asia av mooitw

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Anbefalt

Phonemica – et stort kartleggingsprosjekt for kinesiske dialekter. Intervjuer og historier fortalt av en rekke ulike mennesker på deres egen lokale dialekt ligger fritt tilgjengelig på nettsiden.

Sinica Podcast: Doubling Down on Dengism – «Bill Bishop, Gady Epstein and James Fallows join Kaiser for an in-depth discussion of the Third Plenary Session, the outcome of which has produced a rare consensus among China-watchers — and an even rarer consensus among guests and host at Sinica. Trust us on this: this one is actually interesting.» (Sinica, 11.2013)

Helge Øgrim og Kjell Arild Nilsen: Maos revolusjon manglet støtte – Intervju med historiker og forfatter Frank Dikötter om 1949-revolusjonen og tiden fram mot Det store spranget. (Minerva, 03.2013)
Les også Maos tragiske revolusjon av Erik Tornes.

Kinas tredje plenum

Mamta Badkar: Here’s Why Everyone Cares About China’s ‘3rd Plenum’ Meeting – intervju med Bill Bishop om hvorfor Partiets tredje plenum er viktig (Business Insider, 11.2013)

Ouyang Bin: Deciphering Xi Jinping’s Dream – «According to Party convention, in a cycle of seven Plenary Sessions during each Party Congress, the first and second Sessions concentrate on personnel issues and the third one on policy. What will transpire at this Third Plenum? What will it tell us about China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, whose mercurial “Chinese Dream” seems to encompass both a hard-line on political control and the promise of economic liberalization?» (ChinaFile, 11.2013)

China Copyright and Media: Communiqué of the 3rd Plenum of the 18th Party Congress – uoffisiell oversettelse til engelsk av den offisielle kunngjøringen fra Partiet etter Kinas tredje plenum (China Copyright and Media, 11.2013)

Joshua Rosenfield: What Does China’s Third Plenum Suggest About Prospects for Reform? – en oppsummering av forventningene til Tredje plenum og hva som kom frem, og en samling lenker til flere analyser (Asia Society, 11.2013)
Les også Disappointment With Third Plenum Is Premature.

Xinhuanet: Commentary: China on new starting point of reform after key meeting – oppsummering av de viktigste punktene fra Kinas tredje plenum (Xinhua, 11.2013)

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Politikk og økonomi

Richard Burger: Urbanization: A tale of two Chinese cities – en kort sammenlikning av historiene til to ulike kinesiske urbaniseringsprosjekter (The Peking Duck, 11.2013)

ChinaFile: Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation – engelsk oversettelse av det beryktede Dokument 9, med den engelske tittelen «Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere» (ChinaFile, 11.2013)

Torbjørn Færøvik: Kina for alle pengene? – «Norge bør utvide handel og annet samarbeid med andre land i Asia enn Kina. Det vil gjøre Norge mindre sårbart for økonomisk og politisk utpressing framover.» (Dagsavisen, 10.2013)

Chico Harlan: China creates new air defense zone in East China Sea amid dispute with Japan – Kina har opprettet en ny luftforsvarssone i øst-Kina-havet, til protester fra naboene (Washington Post, 11.2013)
Les også Troubled skies over troubled waters og 5 Questions on China’s Air Defense Identification Zone

J.M.: Security in Xinjiang: Tightening the Screws – «The authorities say Uighur terrorists were responsible for a car crash in Tiananmen Square on October 28th that killed five people […] Residents said the numbers of paramilitary troops deployed there had been stepped up since the Tiananmen crash.» (Analects, 11.2013)

Internett, media og språk

Victor Mair: Pushing Pekinese – «[…] Pekingese dialect is being promoted in the capital. This is a bit strange in light of the fact that, in every other major city of China, local languages are constrained by diktats from the central government.» (Language Log, 11.2013)
Se også Pekingese Putdowns av samme forfatter.

Monica Tan: Chinese censorship’s dangerous subtlety – «As China’s citizens use the web to protest and share information, the authorities’ assault on internet «rumours» is only the most visible part of the clampdown» (The Guardian, 10.2013)

Xinhuanet: Interview: Oxford expert says it’s not easy for Chinese buzzwords to make their way into English – «Chinese buzzwords reflect social changes, which is interesting, but it takes time for them to be accepted by British people and become English glossary» (Xinhua, 11.2013)

Kultur og samfunn

Katie Hunt: Human zoos and disappearing languages: The plight of China’s minorities – «China is happy to have the appearance of ethnic diversity, but the wider trend is of gradual assimilation» (CNN, 11.2013)

Katie Hunt: Q&A: China’s restive far west – en kort oppsummering av situasjonen i Xinjiang (CNN, 10.2013)

Michael Martina: In China’s Xinjiang, poverty, exclusion are greater threat than Islam – spenningene mellom han-kinesere og uighurer i Xinjiang skyldes sosiale skiller framfor religiøse forskjeller (Reuters, 11.2013)

David Tobin: Xinjiang Dreams: Worrying about ethnicity – «The debate reveals tensions in contemporary China between competing ideas of nationhood: China as an inclusive multi-ethnic state where different ethnic groups live in harmony and China as a Han nation with a singular model of national belonging.» (China Policy Institute Blog, 11.2013)

Ian Johnson: New China Cities: Shoddy Homes, Broken Hope – «As China pushes ahead with government-led urbanization […] many worry that the scores of new housing developments here may face the same plight as postwar housing projects in Western countries. Meant to solve one problem, they may be creating a new set of troubles that could plague Chinese cities for generations.» (New York Times, 11.2013)

J Russell Mikkelsen: What’s weird about Taiwan – «Taiwan is weird. No seriously, like, really weird.» (Medium, 08.2013)