http://baoblogs.com Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While watching the Colbert Report last night I was struck by a comment by Governor Mike Huckabee. He said, and I unfortunately paraphrase, that when you are in debt, you spend less. His phrasing seemed to imply that this was common sense, and indeed, it is. But I worry that ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2011/02/26/rationality-and-government-spending/ ne frequent debate amongst western scholars and economists is the distribution of talent in the public and private arenas, as ludicrous bank bonuses are justified as being required to 'retain talent.'A frequent lament is the question why our mot talented college graduates do not heed any kind of call to ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2011/02/24/commentary-on-private-vs-public-sectors-in-china/ I just heard the scariest quote I've ever heard from an NPR broadcast about the incoming class of freshmen congresspersons: "If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always got," to justify his position that we need to go back to how we did things ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2010/11/16/the-future-of-american-political-development/ Rather like the special relationship the United States and United Kingdom enjoy (and that many of my British friends disparaged), there are special relationships in Asia, too. I've been enjoying Jonathan Fenby's massive Modern China: The fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present. One thing I ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2010/02/19/a-special-arms-agreement/ There's been a lot of discussion lately about the appearance in Chinese publications of faked interviews with Western China scholars, so I'm going to read any quotations from Westerners more carefully now. Here's an extract from an interview I happened across some months ago, which had some details that amused ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2009/08/18/interviews-with-chinese-press/ A friend of mine is a school administrator in a wealthy suburban district. We had dinner in New York not long ago and she asked, "We don't really need to learn Chinese, do we? They're all learning English after all." She knew I was going to disgree, I'm sure. The ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2009/08/01/chinese-at-my-fingertips/ After the May 2009 publication of Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, and with other China projects in development, we're welcoming authors who want to share their work to write about it here at BAO Blogs. This group welcomes new voices, and at Berkshire we're looking forward to finding ways to create ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2009/07/11/bao-blogs-offer-insights-from-china-experts-and-scholars/ BAO Blogs developed from an earlier group project connected with Berkshire Publishing's monthly journal, Guanxi: The China Letter. While that project brought together Guanxi authors, Berkshire has many other authors writing and teaching about Chinese history, culture, and politics, In addition, we have been experimenting with blogs and other social ... http://baoblogs.com/blog/2008/06/09/welcome-to-bao-blogs/ BAOblogs.com is a source of insights from China educators based at universities around the world, who write on subjects ranging from media and education to technology and political science. http://baoblogs.com/blog/2008/05/16/test-post/