Culture

Name alteration of the country’s plateau region sparks controversy The Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, March 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Pubu Zhaxi) Formerly referred to as “Tibet,” China’s southwesternmost administrative region now comes out in official publications as “Xizang,” as spelled in China’s standard transliteration system for Roman letters known as pinyin. There […]

To embrace exceptionalism, to stoke nationalism, or else? The 2023 China International Confucius Cultural Festival is held in Qufu, China’s Shandong Province, Sept. 28, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei) If one has to pick a word of the year for 2023 that projects the future pattern for China’s policy behaviors, then I would go with “culture” or “civilization.” Earlier this December, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to a