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I landed in Chengdu this evening after a flight from Beijing. I’ll spend a good part of tomorrow at the university in meetings and giving a lecture on “John Locke…

From my presentation on â??Historical Origins of European and American Civil Societyâ?

I made a presentation today on the “Historical Origins of European and American Civil Society” to a conference at the university on civil society today. The discussion was tremendously stimulating…

LiBang Village for Migrant Workers* Beijing Fuping Vocational School Students from Rural Western China (*A complex issue in China, as the household registration system — a holdover from the fully…

I had a full day of meetings today. I will give a lecture tomorrow on the historical origins of European civil society. More photos soon, I hope.

University of Peking History Department More to follow, if I get back and the internet connection is better….

I’m having difficulty uploading photos, but I may try later. I’ve had some very good meetings, including at the Li Bang Community in Fenghua (a residential area for immigrant workers,…

What a difference a decade can make! It’s been ten years since I was last in Beijing and — like most of the rest of China — it has changed…

I’ve learned one way to distinguish big cities in China from smaller towns. The big cities have canned coffee available in vending machines, but in the smaller towns coffee is…

A Supermarket in Ningbo Chaing Kai Shek’s Family Shrine in Xi Kou