Month: November 2008

  • Life Magazine China Photos Now on Google

    I’m just starting to look through what they’ve posted, but via Kottke I’ve learned that Life Magazine and Google have teamed up to release many of the magazine’s never-released images. Naturally I started fooling around with China and Beijing pictures, and I found this among many others: an image of the south side of Gulou,…

  • China Tops Japan as Biggest Holder of U.S. Debt

    Just a little note. It had been on my mind since Tobias at Observing Japan noted Japan’s erstwhile distinction as the holder of the most U.S. Treasury bills. He was discussing Niall Ferguson’s column, named with the “unfortunate word” Chimerica, and noted: “Ferguson does not mention that Japan holds more US treasuries than China, meaning…

  • links for 2008-11-18

    BofA, in CCB Play, Stays Course (Wall Street Journal) Bank of America buys more of China Construction Bank. (tags: bankofamerica banking chinaconstructionbank china-us finance) East and West: Never the Twain Shall Meet? (Strange Maps) (tags: xkcd west east maps geography) Bridges and Borders in East Asia: Individual Paper Submission Form Abstract submission for the annual…

  • China, Japan, and Transpacific Academic Exchange: New Data

    China is the hot new place to study abroad. That’s the headline The New York Times culls from the Institute of International Education’s new report on educational exchanges between the United States and a battery of other countries. But China is still only the fifth most common destination for U.S. students, and is still second…

  • links for 2008-11-17

    East Asia Forum Blog of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at Australia National University (tags: blog economics eastasia australianationaluniversity) Obama Skeptics in Asia (RealClearPolitics) Chinese leaders sent congratulations that included a subtle reminder that they expected Obama to acknowledge their contentious claim to the self-governing island of Taiwan. Moreover, on the day Americans…