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Generation-Z Entering the Workforce
Chinese meme of Gen-Z worker telling boss to shut up (From @乌鸦校尉 on Zhihu) This Sixthtone.com article on Gen-Z workers in China is timely...
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Anna May Wong U.S. Quarter Released
For our family gathering on the eighth and last night of Chanukah (which coincided with Christmas this year), my mother swapped out the...
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China 2022
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 13 The 2022 final curtain is approaching. It has been a momentous year in...
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Patagonia: The Other Side of the World
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 12 This issue looks at a world far, and yet not so far, away from both China...
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China Learning to Live with Covid-19
Guangzhou, China (AP photo, South China Morning Post) The recent protests in China that are not acknowledged by the government nor...
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The Frustrations and Anxieties of China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 11 Widespread citizen protests erupted in China this past weekend. What do...
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Peaches and Immortality II
Porcelain seal ink container, San Francisco Asian Art Museum I wrote about the connection between peaches and immortality in Chinese...
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The Entertaining Side of History
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 10 History is the inevitable result of the passage of time. History is...
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Xi Jinping Looks to China’s Future
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 9 October 2022 will be remembered by chroniclers of the twenty-first century...
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Peaches and Immortality
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 8 Autumn has arrived. A crispness is in the air. The days are getting shorter,...
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Peace and Compromise
Peace (kier-in-sight-WjMNw7dOBB0-unsplash) Humans talk a good game about peace, while exhibiting millennia-long, historical traditions of...
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Chinese Memorial Arches
The Mid-Autumn Festival was this past weekend. This is a time for families to reunite, to give thanks for the Fall harvest, and to...
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Mid-Autumn Festival 2022
I wish everyone 中秋节快乐! Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! A time for family reunion, for celebrating the autumn harvest with the full moon on the...
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China History Podcast on Snuff Bottles
I joined Teacup Media's China History Podcast to talk about the history of snuff, some of the nobles, aristocrats, and emperors that...
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American Women’s Voices from the Past
What do a banned young adult novel about a teenage Chinese-American woman with a secret identity in late nineteenth century Atlanta,...
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Water Diversion in China (and America)
Water: the precious resource that is so often either in short supply or over supply and not where it is needed most. This is as true in...
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The China-U.S. Dance
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 5 This issue was supposed to publish on August 8, 2020, the second anniversary...
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Seeking Merit in Ancient and Modern China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 4 Merit has been a central concern in China since before the more than...
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China and America Jockeying for the Global Future
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 3 The United States and China are attempting independent engagement with the...
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The “Chinese Woman” of Cape Cod
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 2 Hong Kong Harbor, 1860-1870, Marciano Antonia Baptista, PEM, 1961...
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