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...story - as you would discover if, instead of being mesmerized by the sight of Pudong, you were to turn around and look at the solid, early 20th century buildings of the Bund, just behind you. Modernity did not come to China because Deng Xiaoping said it should. As Rana Mitter of Oxford University argues, there had been modernizing streams in Chinese society long before 1978, and had some of them taken a different course, our view of what China represents for the future would be unrecognizable from the standard text. (Just imagine what we would think if China had become...
...Chinese élites, we often forget, have had economic and cultural links with Europe for 300 years; by the 18th century, the Chinese were producing porcelain for the European market and avidly studying European art and architecture. In particular, says Mitter, the first half of the 20th century - that period when Shanghai was at its peak, but which is routinely dismissed in the thumbnail history - is "really important; the questions about their society that Chinese are asking now are very similar to the ones that they asked in the 1920s and 1930s." (Read "Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy...
...Moreover, just as there have been many Chinese yesterdays, so there are many versions of China today. It is astonishing how many predictions that China will not adopt liberal values in the future ignore the part of China that already has. For Taiwan, as Mitter says, has a deep sense of Chinese cultural identity (more so than the mainland, arguably) and yet is a "highly modern, liberal democracy." Who knows? The island may yet turn out to be a model for China as a whole. (Read "Taiwan: How to Reboot the Dragon...
Mitchell A. Orenstein '89 and Siddhartha Mitter'89, the two other students that faced the lyingcharge, said they had both received letters fromMoses which said they had been found guilty onlyof participating in the blockade...
...feeling was that Epps' charge [of lying]was totally unfounded," Mitter said. "Thesubcommittee accepted that...