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China at the Crossroads:
BLOGGING ABOUT HUI CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND DAILY LIFE IN URBAN CHINA
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David R. Stroup
Jul 12, 20151 min read
Welcome to China: the view from Nanjing
I'm up this morning because of jetlag, and because I have a campus tour scheduled by the foreign teacher liaison at 8AM (which after...
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David R. Stroup
Jul 6, 20154 min read
"We all have one home, and its name is China!": Representing Minorities in Multicultural C
Today I'd like to dive in a little to the kinds of issues that I'm hoping to get at while I'm out doing fieldwork. As such, I'll be...
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David R. Stroup
Jul 3, 20155 min read
A China Reading List
So, you want to become a 中国通 (zhongguotong, China expert)? There's a wealth of great literature out there on the Middle Kingdom. Choosing...
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David R. Stroup
Jul 1, 20156 min read
"The sky is boundless and blue; The wilderness is vast and endless": Romanticizing China&#
《敕勒歌》北朝民歌 "A Song of Chi Le" - Anonymous (Northern Dynasty Folk Song) 敕勒川，陰山下， The Chi Le plains flow beneath the Yin Shan Mountains,...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 29, 20153 min read
On Chinese, Hanyu, and FangYan: Let's Talk Language.
That China is massive is self-evident. The territory that China spans is roughly comparable to the European continent. Over such a vast...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 29, 20155 min read
City Profile: Xining
Today's post wraps up the series of profiles on fieldsites I'll be working in during the next year. Xining, today's profiled city, is the...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 24, 20155 min read
City Profile: Yinchuan and Najiahu
Next in the field-site profile series, is the city of Yinchuan, provincial capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and its suburb...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 23, 20153 min read
City Profile: Jinan- China's City of Springs
As I begin to prepare for departure, I'll be profiling the cities where I will be spending most of my time in the field. I'll begin this...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 22, 20152 min read
So, where am I going?
First thing's first: I should explain what I'm doing, and where I'll be in China. I'm a fan of maps, and the one below makes this a much...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 21, 20151 min read
A word about this blog
China at the Crossroads. I've never been good at writing titles. In fact, most of the things I write get titled as an afterthought. But...
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David R. Stroup
Jun 16, 20151 min read
Welcome
Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many posts. This blog will trace my time as a Fulbright Scholar doing fieldwork in China....
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