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Work, Family, and “Sea Turtles”
Here’s a piece from China Daily, discussing how Chinese who have left China to study and work in the US are now returning to China (and Taiwan – the story is clearly treating Taiwan as a part of… Continue reading
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Blogging for Kids
My post today is part of a blogosphere-wide effort to raise awareness about special education and childhood disability. Laura M, of 11D, is organizing things and I will link to all participants as they come on-line throughout the… Continue reading
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Sunday “Modern Love”: Something Like Motherhood
It is so nice to read something about a deep and performative love; not simply the posing of New York singles looking for intimacy but resistant of commitment; but a story of a life transformed through the daily… Continue reading
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And By the Way: How ‘Bout Those Yankees!
You might remember that some time ago I consulted the I Ching and asked whether the New York Yankees would win the American League East division title this year. And the I Ching said that they would. Well,… Continue reading
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Friday I Ching: Hurricanes and the Mandate of Heaven
The idea, derived from an ancient Chinese worldview, that natural disasters might tell us something about the effectiveness or legitimacy of the highest national leaders has popped up recently in stories about the political effects of hurricane Katrina… Continue reading
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Actions and Words
The speech given by US Deputy Secretary of State, Robert Zoellick, yesterday is getting a fair amount of attention. From a Confucian-inspired point of view, the speech seems out of place. Instead of lecturing China on what it… Continue reading
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A Legalist Market Solution for Contemporary China?
Sun Bin, a very well-informed and intelligent blog on contemporary Chinese political economy, has a post today that suggests that Legalism, an ancient school of thought that emphasizes strict application of clearly defined rules, could provide a market-based… Continue reading
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The Music of Nature
I found this article in the NYT today about a man, David Rothenberg, who plays music with the birds. He is a clarinetist and he goes out in the field, plays and the birds, he says, sing with… Continue reading
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Birth After Death?
From the Chinese history blog, Frog in a Well, comes this story about a woman in Taiwan who sued and won the right to "harvest" the sperm of her recently deceased fiancee for use in a future in vitro… Continue reading
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Flood the North Korean Zone
We all woke up today (at least on the East coast of the US) to the story that North Korea is saying that it will step back from its nuclear program in exchange for security guarantees from the… Continue reading
The Useless Tree 