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Internship at a Chinese Bank? Only If You Go to Harvard or MIT
By Damien Ma Just a short post to wrap up my week of guest blogging, which, now that I think about it, comes full circle to the broad theme of "soft power" with which I began this week (and one of...
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The Long Goodbye
By Edward GoldstickI've got one longish and two shortish posts in the works that I hope Jim and his colleagues will allow me to get in before I sign off ...... but for now, here's a short three part...
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Please Welcome: Dougherty and Klapmeier, Fingleton, Fisher, and Jenne
Once again I'm grateful for the range, quality, sophistication, and care of posts by a team of guest bloggers. I could go on at length -- and at a later time, will -- but for now I'll simply say that...
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Testing How Much You Know About East Asia (Not Just China)
By Eamonn Fingleton TOKYO -- For years now the American press has been full of reports of the rise of China and, to a lesser extent, of South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. But how well do you really...
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Blogs and Public Menace
Note from your host, James Fallows: The Atlantic is a big-tent operation, with writers and editors here disagreeing over the years on issues large and small. To illustrate the large questions: before...
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Final Words
By Edward GoldstickIt's been an interesting week. There are many subjects that I had planned to touch but then felt it unfair to the other guests at the party to hog the space, some controversial...
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China: Not Quite a Revolution
By Jeremiah JenneFirst of all I want to thank Jim for giving me this opportunity. My usual audience consists of two classes of Chinese history students per semester and a handful of loyal readers who...
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Your Illness is Not My Business
By Julian Fisher, MDHow strange for a physician to say that...and especially as I make an initial appearance on this blog. Physicians are supposed to be caring and to want to care for patients and...
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Answers to the Asian History Quiz
By Eamonn FingletonIn my post yesterday I pointed out that Westerners suffer many blindspots in their understanding of East Asia. I underlined the point by asking two quiz-style questions. It is time...
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Read This Academic Journal Article, but Prepare to Pay
By Julian Fisher, MDIllnesses that public figures have are much in the news of late -- Ronald Reagan and his Alzheimer's disease the most noteworthy -- and I recently came across a brief description in...
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Quick Notes from Beijing
By James FallowsThanks very much to the latest guest team for their ongoing dispatches. Herewith, on a sanity break from other duties, some quick notes on what I first notice compared with my latest...
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When Britannica Kept Silent on East Asian Atrocities
By Eamonn Fingleton For those who still doubt that the West suffers remarkable blindspots in East Asia (see my earlier contributions in this space), some research I did today brings startling news. I...
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Lessons from China's Revolution, 100 Years Later
By Jeremiah JenneA century ago this year, a group of revolutionaries accidentally blew up the bombs they were supposed to be making -- oh, the perils of insurrection planning -- and rather than be...
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Ambassadors Caught on Tape, China Edition
By Jeremiah JenneWhile there weren't all that many actual protesters at last Sunday's "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing, one attendee who did not escape the notice of sharp-eyed Chinese netizens was US...
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Inside the National Air and Space Museum
By Alan Klapmeier I had intended to write more about General Aviation today (maybe later), but I got distracted after a meeting in Washington D.C. That distraction was an invitation by Dorothy...
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Your Brain, on the Screen
by Julian Fisher, MDThose who follow this blog have recently seen some obscured images of Beijing shrouded in smog. I would like to take you to the opposite extreme, clarifying not the world around us...
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After Protests, Beijing Cracks Down
By Jeremiah JenneBEIJING -- Last Sunday's planned protests were something of a bust but that hasn't stopped activists from posting another series of anonymous letters on the US-based Chinese language...
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In China, Droughts Bring the Crazy
By Jeremiah Jenne [see Update below]BEIJING -- It didn't rain today. Now, usually that wouldn't be much of a lead, but here in North China this counts as news. Since last September, we've had almost...
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General Aviation Continues to Fly
by Alan Klapmeier To the charge that I am an "airplane nut" how do I plead? Guilty, your honor. As with most of us, and all of Jim's guest bloggers, our choices and passions give us a particular view...
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Reagan, Alzheimer's, and the Dilemma of Testing
By Julian Fisher, MDEarlier this week, I commented on the issue of privacy in regard to personal health information for public figures. This has emerged again with publication of Ron Reagan's...
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