HeyJaredJeremiah Jenne
Educator. Writer. Storyteller. Travel Expert. History Ph.D. Co-host of Barbarians at the Gate and the historical travel podcast By Their Own Compass. Columnist for the China Books Review.
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Shanghai's Quiet Rival: A History Walk Along Ningbo's Old Bund (opens the original)
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Ningbo’s old bund is heaving the week before the autumn holidays. Ice cream stands, music bars, and waterfront cafes are filling up as the sun sets and the temperatures finally climb down from the low 90s. If this is the calm, I’m glad to be out of here before the storm. The district’s Chinese name is 老外滩. At first I read it as “laowai + tan” (Foreigner’s Wharf), a translation I had seen in a couple of places and took to be a play on the treaty port history, although I believe the name is proper
Chairmen, China, and the Tricky Translations of Political Terms in the PRC (opens the original)
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Two older gentlemen with expanding waistlines, staggering daddy issues, and a shared love of firing military brass meet in DC this week. And right on cue, the pundits leap forward to pontificate on the most important issues facing Sino-US relations today: What is Xi Jinping’s title in English? Many bytes and keystrokes are spent in social media wars between those who insist that Xi Jinping be called General Secretary and those who feel that such pedantry is ideologically loaded panda poop. David
Mao, More Than Ever (opens the original)
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Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976. Fifty years later, Jeremiah and David compare notes on a mostly quiet anniversary. Jeremiah reports that there were enough tributes to beat the over/under, but David argues that the Party would still prefer to keep things as ritualistic as possible. Mao is still dead. We will all bow. And moving on.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3wp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
The Last Emperor of China with author Paul French (opens the original)
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What Qianlong Knew About Scanning Books in Las Vegas (opens the original)
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In 1772, the Qianlong Emperor, no stranger to ambitious, expensive vanity projects, assigned a little busywork to the bureaucrats who staffed the Qing Empire.QingSocial I, the Qianlong Emperor, your favorite Son of Heaven, am TIRED of scholars who have TOO MUCH TIME on their hands and love to complain about EVERYTHING,
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