At the Edge of Empire
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Please join the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies for discussion with Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times Edward Wong, on his new book At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China (Viking Press, 2024).
Weaving together lessons from his father’s journey from Mao’s China to Washington, DC (by way of Hong Kong and Xinjiang) in the 1960s with on-the-ground observations from his own time in China as New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief, Wong sheds light on the dynamics of authoritarian revival and modern China today. Wong will be joined by Amy Qin, National Correspondent for the New York Times, where she was formerly a China and Taiwan correspondent. Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies, will moderate the discussion.
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What a waste of time
My reading list is fast outgrowing my capacity to read it all, but I'm definitely adding "At the Edge of Empire" to it. Thank you.
Free Tibet, East Turkestan, Mongolia 😃
I'm not entirely sure Inner Mongolia wants to be freed to join the somewhat worse-off Mongolia...
Feel free to get to a point any time….yup, aany second now…
This is a book release event. I know internet is almost anonymous. Still, don't go around announcing your ignorance at random, will you?
A book release event is meant to share stories behind the book. Sometimes that confers insight: for example, you got a first hand account of Han Chinese observing common hatred from 16 ethnicity groups towards Han in early 1950s in Xinjiang while they are very diverse from each other. Sometimes author and panelist share insights from the book that help you decide whether and when you want to read the book; sometimes it gives you insight from the book without spending time buying+reading the book; some they give insights related to but outside the book. Authors give out those benefits to promote their work in the general topics of their books; others host such events for general education, for their own learning, and to help authors.
It's a bit bizarre how you managed to miss these obvious intentions.
@@ecpgieicgI guess we have to read the book. I too found the conversations aimless and cryptic. Both Amy and Ed were working hard to avoid expanding the discussion on growing anti-chinese sentiments and policies in the US. And US journalist in China does appear to write illogical hit pieces on China, I don't know if they are CIA or just Taiwanese Chinese Americans. As a computer engineer, I have read some really illogical assertions.
And during the warlord years, even the Han people hated the various military faction, something that Ed pointed out. This was the reason for the rise of the communist.
After just returning from Tibet, I can agree that the Tibetan ain't happy to see so many Han in their cities. There is a kind of quiet tolerance in their coexistence but probably not as hostile as the atmosphere in the US today. My Han driver gets into arguments with everybody but no racial slurs are used and violence avoided. The Tibetan culture and language is clearly still dominant, most administration and police personnel are Tibetan. I have even seen menu with only Tibetan since I was crawling into all sort of side streets looking for the best food.
Being an Chinese immigrant in SEA, we are at best tolerated even after 3 generations, so I wasn't surprised. And as minorities we are discrimination against where I am, while minorities in China are privileged, so they are clearly being accommodated by the central government.
BTW, I prefer not to name the country I am in because I could be jailed for criticizing them.