D'Edward Condon sur The Pillar : Taïwan, prochain point sensible entre le Vatican et la Maison Blanche ? 17 février 2025 Les...

Continuing on the topic of Shanghai population – this abstract mentions the data from the recent census. According to these numbers, by 1929 Shanghai had become the sixth largest city in the world, with its 2.7 million residents, of which foreigners made up 1.7%: Source: THE REAL ESTATE MARKET:…

Complementing updates by Frank Kouwenhoven in the new CHIME newsletter (subscribe here) on silk-and-bamboo music, I also appreciate two further field reports from him, again written in his communic…

Spring in Guangdong means one thing: opera.

Chaque personne est un but, une fin.

This winter (2024-2025) is a poor one for some species we consider to be staple winter visitors in Beijing.  Thrush numbers are well down, waxwings are scarce and there are almost no high-elevation redstarts in their usual mountain haunts.  Certainly at Lingshan the sea buckthorn crop, which usually sustains good numbers of thrushes and redstarts,…

Twenty-five years ago—almost to the day—Shanghai in Images took off. With seed funding from the France-Berkeley Fund, my comrade-in-idea(l)s, Yeh Wen-hsin, and I launched the first online database of Chinese historical photographs with two...

The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist and conservative impulses.

De He Yuyan sur Bitter Winter : Église catholique en Chine : l'étrange cas de l'évêque Ji Weizhong 02/05/2025 Une...

In more than 20 years in Shanghai (and counting), I spent many years in the former French concession but one location in particular remains a clear favorite. This was on Route Kaufmann (today Anting lu / 安亭路), where I spent 10 years. Living at the back a small lane really felt like living in Old … Continue reading Route Kaufmann, Frenchtown