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Bridging Cultures
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 5 America celebrates several Heritage Months each year. This fifth month of...
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More Early East-West Connections?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 4 I recently wrote about U.S.-China connections in Gilded Age America. Today I...
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China-America: Thinking of Ironies
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 3 gpsnews.ucsd.edu This issue looks at ironies in the U.S.-China...
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America-China Links: Snapshot from the Late Gilded Age
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 2 America and China have been directly linked for almost two-and-one-half...
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2024: Year of the Wood Dragon
I wish everyone a healthy and prosperous Year of the Dragon! 祝大家龙年快乐,身体健康,万事如意!!
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The Dragon Nation (America)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 1 The Chinese (aka Lunar) New Year arrives this weekend on February 10, 2024....
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Ming Porcelain in Enlightenment Portugal
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 38 Chapel Vestibule, Fronteira Palace The Portuguese fell in love with...
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Our Economies Are Doomed - Or Are They?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 37 Links for the following two articles appeared top-bottom in my Google feed...
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A Bold Triptych in the Heart of 16th Century European Globalism
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 36 Today's Issue claims only a wispy connection with China, so please indulge...
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China and America: The Presidents Special Edition
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 36, Vol. 2, Issue 35 (Special) Xi Jinping and Joseph Biden (Doug Mills The...
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China and America: Where Are We Going?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America Vol. 2, Issue 35 I am concerned. About America. About China. About the evolution of our...
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The Ferengi is a Frank: Linguistic Lore Across the Centuries
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 34 Portuguese in India, c. 1548 Frank, Farang , Ferenghi , Folangji ,...
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China and the World Order
America has been the dominant world power since at least the end of World War II and wants to retain this role. China seeks to reclaim...
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Buddhist Art in Southern India (The Early Years)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 32 China is the land of the “Three Teachings” – Confucianism, Daoism, and...
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The Next Flashpoint in Asia: Likely Not Taiwan
China's Claimed Ownership in the South China Sea Taiwan gets most of the attention on our regular news cycles. The Chinese have ratcheted...
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The China Relief Expedition of 1900
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 31 China suffered a momentous and disastrous entry into the twentieth century....
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Cape Cod Women Sailing to China in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 30 The historical Cape Cod and China Connection came to me again during a...
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2023: A Summer of Distress in China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 29 The unusual, the sorrowful, and the disconcerting have been coming fast and...
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Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 3)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 28 This third and final installment of Asia in the Hudson River Valley brings...
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World's Largest Buddhist Stupa
Continuing with the Buddhist theme I wrote about last week, the following is an excerpt from my visit to the world's largest stupa in...
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