Stories about History from March, 2006
China: An Altaic legend
Musing Under the Tenement Palm tracks down the source of a commonly reported “factoid” that China claimed to have invented skiing on the basis of ancient Altaic cave-paintings of Stone-Age...
China: Plunder of the past
Angry Chinese Blogger reports on the The Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, a mainland Chinese NGO and subsidiary of the China Foundation for the Development of Folklore Culture. Founded in...
Mohamed Choukry and Jill Carol ..Remembered in the Moroccan blogosphere
Last week was a very active one in the Moroccan blogosphere. Different subjects interested the Moroccan bloggers from Jill Carol‘s liberation to the the sexual education for kids. Islam, as...
Haiti: “Failing Haiti”, the documentary
Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela Project weighs in on the documentary “Failing Haiti” and the goings-on in and around a screening of the film in Washington DC.
Latvia: March 16 Marches Banned in Riga
All About Latvia reports on the problems associated with the Legionaires’ Day celebration on March 15 and 16. Riga city council has refused to allow ultranationalists to march on these...
Russia: “Seven Sisters” – Part 1
Digenis has begun an 11-part series on the history of the the Seven Sisters, the Moscow skyscrapers built in the 1950s, which are considered to be “the epitome of Stalinist...
Russia: “The 9th Platoon”
Charlie Ganske of Russia Blog reviews “The 9th Platoon,” an extremely expensive and popular Russian movie about the 1980s war in Afghanistan.
Cameroon: Colonial relics on display
France Watch questions the presence of a statue of French soldier in the center of Douala, Cameroon..”Does General Leclerc, a French soldier, deserve to be honored at the Bonanjo [Douala]...
Czech Republic: What Yugoslavia Meant For Czechs
The death of Slobodan Milosevic inspires Gazing into the Abyss to write about the Czechs’ feelings toward (what used to be) Yugoslavia: “‘Yugoslavia’ is likeable word for Czech ears. Serbia...
Jamaica: Possibility
Francis Wade — and, it would seem, several of his compatriots — senses a “whiff of possibility” in the recent changes in the Jamaican political status quo, notably the ascension...
Guyana: Who are Guyana's true friends?
Monologist takes MediaCritic to task for the latter's criticism of the Guyanese President's absence from the historic meeting ratifying the Caribbean Single Market in January. “I think, by not going...
Silk Road: Sogdians in China
Musing Under the Tenement Palm blogs about Sogdians, the builders of Bokhara and Samarkand, who spoke Persian and plied the Silk Route through Central Asia and into China for 15...
China: Specter of rural revolt
Rounding up this year's National People's Congress (NPC), China Confidential says that while it's not democratic, it is far more than a “rubber stamp”, providing a window into the fears...
Syrian Blogsphere in a week
The Syrian blogsphere took a very important step this week, launching Syria Planet. The first online portal for All Syrian bloggers. Encouraged by the blogging boom Syria witnessed this last...
First Woman President in Chile
Photo: www.emol.com Chile is very excited. For the first time a woman has been elected as president and we are talking about it; in the streets, on the radio, on...
Interview with Nasrin Alavi
There are about 75000 blogs in Persian in world and their numbers are growing fast. We are Iran, written by Nasrin Alavi and published in English and German. It is...
China: Urbling memorabilia
Shenzhen Ren reminds us of the mass mobilization of young intellectuals to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), and of Stefan Landsberger's excellent online collection of CR posters and...
DRC: Labika on ” The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
At Renouveau Congolais, blogger JB Labika summarizes (FR) the entanglements of three strands of influence in the DRC as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He talks of the...
Caribbean: Sci-fi interview
Grenada-born sci-fi writer Tobias Buckell links to an interview in which he talks about his first novel. Among the issues he addresses are the representation of Caribbean voices and researching...
A plea against the 26 province parcelling of the DRC
At UDPS Liege [blog of the Liege, Belgium chapter of a DRC opposition party] blogger Kayembe Tshipamba Jean P. opposes (FR) the parceling of the DRC in 26 provinces, deplores...
Africa: Searching for your roots
Ethnic Loft comments about the growth in genealogy in the US amongst African Americans seeking to trace their ancestoral roots. “South African has introduced a different twist to the topic...
