Forty years ago, Nixon and Mao “changed the world.” But the press who covered that historic event had more important issues to address, like Walter Cronkite’s socks and Barbara Walter’s loneliness.
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Chunjie is a time to catch up one work, fulfill my jiaozi quota for the quarter, and to write snarky blog posts about the holiday season while pretending to work on my laptop. 
Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays. We’ll be spending Christmas here in Beijing before taking YJ’s parents down to Sanya for a few days of sun and fun at the beach. See you in 2012. 
I’ve been riding the subway more. I don’t know why. I’ve never before been particularly masochistic nor do I generally enjoy close physical contact with strangers. But it seems an economical way to get around the city now that every available road surface is jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Having spent quite a few commuting hours below ground now, I’ve started to distinguish a taxonomy of my fellow passengers, including several species which I find it best to avoid. |
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On Sun Yatsen, 1912, and Han Han
Trusting Yuan Shikai to nourish a fragile young republican government was basically akin to dousing a three-year old in A1 Sauce and putting him in the care of a rabid honey badger, but the demise of the first republican experiment might not have been as inevitable as some believe.