Chinese in Papua New Guinea
For some reason, the wikipedia page on “Chinese people in Papua New Guinea”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Papua_New_Guinea is unusually good.
For some reason, the wikipedia page on “Chinese people in Papua New Guinea”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Papua_New_Guinea is unusually good.
The Globe and Mail is running a longish article on “Papua New Guinea and China’s New Empire”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081231.wyorkchina0103/CommentStory/International/home. The piece begins with a description of China’s ‘new empire’ and its use of soft power, especially in Africa, and ends with a discussion of the Ramu nickel mine. It is an interesting piece, although not as interesting [...]
Somehow I’ve become embroiled in Taiwan-as-Austronesia. Here is someone who has written about this: “Christian Alan Anderson”:http://omnivoyage.org/about_chris.htm Includes publications. Note to self, note to self, note to self.
I’ve given up my plan of developing an expertise in WoW in China — although its something that I’m keeping my mind on. Luckily, the project is in better hands than mine. There is a nice “piece on Bonnie Nardi’s work”:http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/10/wow-in-china-and-us.html as well as a “shorter earlier piece”:http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/11/uci-tackles-world-of-warcraft-mystery/. Bonnie is great and I’m looking forward [...]
Two volumes on a topic I will probably not have time to deal with until retirement: ” The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts “:http://0-www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_id=5309&category_id=b3e6237d1b1b3b8594488ed1c40d0dfb&PHPSESSID=815beb845cfdf2ead27aaeca2280fb46 By Meir Shahar and, on the lighter side “American Shaolin”:http://www.mattpolly.com/polly-books.htm By Matt Polly — much more a genre piece.
China.org has a “new piece”:http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/222358.htm on Internet addiction with some useful links in the sidebar. Of course it comes out just days _after_ I turn in my paper on Internet addiction. Ah well, I guess life keeps going whether your article does or not…
Having just completed an article, I suppose it is too late to go back and site “Internet and self-regulation in China: the cultural logic of controlled commodification”:http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/29/5/772?etoc by “Ian Weber”:http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/weber.html
Here’s Julian’s piece on “gold farming in China”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html?ex=1183089600&en=1e6c650df0b49c03&ei=5070 as well as some “errata”:http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/06/recalculating-t.html. And speaking of errata, “so much for Internet addiction”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/06/25/addiction.video.games.reut/index.html
Here’s an article from Islands Business on “Chinese in Papua New Guinea”:http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=17355/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl and how the long-time Chinese expat community and the growing PRC presence in PNG is playing in national politics.
I was in the shower this morning thinking about Dru Gladney’s writings on ethnic minorities in China and specifically why I hadn’t ever read any of them despite the fact (according to everyone I talk to) that I should have. There are many reasons I haven’t read Gladney’s work (other than the excellent edited volume [...]
Here is a “good article on the increasing role of the PRC in the Pacific”:http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/174736.html. The article focuses on Papua New Guinea, and is right on target — there have always been Chinese expats in PNG, and the Pacific has always been a place where Taiwan and the PRC have fought for diplomatic recognition. But [...]
I recently listened to “this interview”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml on the BBC with Chinese ambassador Sha Xu Kang. If you were wondering what the Chinese diplomatic equivalent of the “Terry Gross/Gene Simmons”:http://erim.net/archives/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-interview interview was, this is it. The first 19 minutes go by just fine, until the interviewer starts asking about Taiwan and it starts to ramp up…