The China Beat has received praise and notice in many locations, including the New York Times‘ “Paper Cuts” blog, Far Eastern Economic Review, Shanghai City Weekend, and The Beijinger. Writers who follow China issues, like James Fallows and Andrew Leonard, have recommended China Beat to their readers.
In July 2012, The China Beat registered its 1,000th and final post. It is archived here by request of the creators, Maura Cunningham, Kate Merkel-Hess, Ken Pomeranz, and Jeff Wasserstrom.
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2012
Book Review: The Gender of Memory, Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
The First Asian Man: The Story Behind the Jeremy Lin Story, Yong Chen
Book Review: A Passion for Facts by Tong Lam, Maggie Clinton
All Good Things Must Come to an End: China Beat’s 1,000th Post, Maura Cunningham, Kate Merkel-Hess, Ken Pomeranz, and Jeff Wasserstrom
Salvaging Memories from the Ruins of the Three Gorges, Daisy Yan Du
Changsha: Photographs by Rian Dundon, Rian Dundon
Behind Bo Xilai’s Halo, Xujun Eberlein
How Chongqing People View Bo Xilai, Xujun Eberlein
Book Review: Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, Mike Frick
A Flourishing Profession: Reflections on a Career in Asian Studies, Charlotte Furth
Literacy and Development within China’s Minorities, Alexandra Grey
“Unwavering Public Support” Not Quite So Easy to Find These Days, Duncan Hewitt
Whither the "Year of China"?, Denise Ho and Jared Flanery
Book Review: Developmental Fairy Tales, Nicole Kwoh
Book Review: Keeping the Nation’s House, Elizabeth LaCouture
Book Review: Chiang Kai-shek’s Interpersonal Relationships: Perspectives Across the Strait, Sherman Lai
Book Review: China and Orientalism, Fabio Lanza
Digital Chinese Whispers: Death Threats and Rumors Inside China’s Online Marketplace of Ideas, James Leibold
Republican China, Kate Merkel-Hess
Rural Return: Xi Jinping’s Iowa Visit, Kate Merkel-Hess
Excerpt: Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes, James Palmer
Ai in Mumbai, Reshma Patil
Letter from Little Lhasa, Reshma Patil
Excerpt: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Stephen R. Platt
Book Review: Modern China’s Network Revolution, Brett Sheehan
Book Review: Superstitious Regimes by Rebecca Nedostup, Stefania Travagnin
Celebrating Chunjie in Old Nanjing, Sarah Tynen
Hong Kong Identity and Democratic Values, Sebastian Veg
The Taiwan Elections in Historical Perspective, Sebastian Veg
A Q&A with Janet Chen, Author of Guilty of Indigence, Jeff Wasserstrom
Chinese Youth: A Quick Q and A with Mary Bergstrom, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Book Review: Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune, David Webster
2011
A Quick Q & A with Kim Rathcke Jensen: A Beijing-Based Danish Journalist
Bay Area Readers: See Datong: The Great Society
China Beat Birthday: Now We Are Three
China Beat Event: “Nationalism and Religion in Twentieth- Century Asia,” Friday 4/22
China Events in Southern California, February 8-22
New Issue of Twentieth-Century China Available
(Not Quite) Frivolous Friday: High Tea and the Opium War
Obama, the Dalai Lama, and US-China Relations: The Current State of Affairs
Ode to the Communist Song Revisited
On Chinese Mothering and Amy Chua
Reading Round-Up: February 8, 2011
Reading Round-Up: Richard McGregor’s The Party
The Red Legacy, Alec Ash
Not Drowning but Waving?, Tom Bannister
A View on Ai Weiwei’s Exit, Geremie R. Barme
Screening Tiananmen, Chris Berry
Chinese Tour Groups in Europe, Chinese Tour Groups in Yunnan: Narrating a Nation in the World, Tami Blumenfield
Swearing down the Law – A Debate, Jerome Bourgon and Paul R. Katz
Swearing down the Law – A Debate (continued), Jerome Bourgon and Paul R. Katz
We Chinese, M. Scott Brauer
When Things Go Wrong: Village Elections as a Process Creating Contention, Kerry Brown
Harbin’s Past, Modern Style, James Carter
Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era, Adam Cathcart
Soft Power Struggle: Ai Weiwei and the Limits of Sino-German Cultural Cooperation, Adam Cathcart
Obama Should Buy Hu a Burger, Yong Chen
Factories without Smoke, Chris Cherry
Factories without Smoke: Wang Jia Yi and Gao Tian Ci, Chris Cherry
Frivolous Friday: In Praise of Jianbing 煎饼, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
New Media and Old Dilemmas: Online Protest and Cyber Repression in Asia Panel Report, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Q&A: Yi-Li Wu, Author of Reproducing Women, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Reader Responses: Celebrating Jianbing, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Reading Round-Up: Reactions to the Wenzhou Train Crash, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Book Review: A Critical Introduction to Mao, Brian J. DeMare
Memories of Hyperdevelopment: Chongqing Trip Report, Jacob Dreyer
Liminal City, Rian Dundon
Havel, China and Africa, Howard W. French
How China Says No: Thoughts on Being Blacklisted by China, Dru C. Gladney
Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: Promoting creative industries while maintaining political control, Thomas Glucksmann-Smith
On the Joys of Online Book Shopping, Maggie Greene
China’s Empty Apartments, Michael Gsovski
China’s Empty Apartments, Michael Gsovski
Beijing Subway’s “Great Leap Forward” Provokes Resistance, Jared Hall
Review: Consent of the Networked, Anne Henochowicz
The PRC and PR: Baffling Messages in Times Square?, Christopher C. Heselton
Dalian’s Past, Dalian’s Present, Part 3, Christian Hess
Book Review: Gourmets in the Land of Famine, Emily Hill
Passport to the World: Chinese Students at the University of Kentucky, Denise Ho and Jared Flanery
Excerpt: The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge, Nick Holdstock
Understanding China, Ron Javers
Ai Weiwei and Qingming, Lionel M. Jensen
Ai Weiwei and the “Age of Madness”: Day Five and Counting, Lionel M. Jensen
Pre-Summit Positioning, Scott Kennedy
Dalian’s Past, Dalian’s Present, Part 2, Miriam Kingsberg
The Internet and China’s Response to the Japan Earthquake, Daniel Knorr
From the Group Comes the Nation: China’s First Mass Political Organization, the Baohuanghui, Jane Leung Larson
Your Discourse or Mine?, Silvia Lindtner
Facebook and the People in the Iron House: 非死不可？, James A. Millard