The PRC History Group presents the second installment in the Document of the Month Series, curated by Michael Schoenhals. View the entire series at prchistory.org
March 2014
What Is to Be Done? A Note from the Communist Underground (1961)
Hi everyone,
Last month on the original PRCHistory email list Felix Wemheuer asked about reviews of Dikötter's Tragedy of Liberation. A joint review of Mitter's China's War with Japan and Dikötter's book was just published here:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1380102.ece
Best wishes,
Jeremy Brown
We are very excited to announce a new section of the prchistory.org website -- "Research Notes."
The current notes cover ongoing research programs, histories, and states of the field with special reference to China- and PRC-related research communities based in Europe. Titles appear below. Reports can be accessed via http://prchistory.org/notes/
We are immensely grateful to the current contributors. If you or a colleague would like to add a report to the page, please contact H-PRC News (newshprc at gmail dot com).
Welcome to those who have recently joined H-PRC, the PRC History Group's new H-Net network for scholars with interests in the history of the People's Republic of China! All of you have the ability to create discussion posts, and most of you are authorized to upload images, videos, and other content. So please feel free to ask questions and share resources. Posts are moderated, but we will only block spam or genuinely inappropriate comments.
Last year saw the release of a very unsuccessful biopic of Lei Feng. Here is a different take on the symbolism in a contemporary context. Charming.
“What is a document?” If we ask Google, we discover that this question has been asked some 1.24 million times in German already. In English, there are already in excess of 153 million texts “out there” that might provide an answer, given that they contain the phrase “A document is…”. When I checked, I found to my surprise that one relevant internet text that does not is the U.S.
