Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Wang Guangmei (Madame Liu Shaoqi), 1921-2006

October 16th, 2006 · 7 Comments

Update 10/18/06: Richard Spencer has a great post on his foreign correspondent’s blog for the Telegraph on press coverage of Wang’s death in Beijing as well as some more details and photos from Liu and Wang’s struggles during the GPCR.
Via CDT: Wang Guangmei, widow of former Chinese president Liu Shaoqi, passed away last week at [...]

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Site News: Weekend records and must reads around the blogosphere

October 16th, 2006 · No Comments

I was pleasantly surprised to see that this little project of mine received some (undeserved) recent notice. Two sites, for which I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration, China Law Blog and The Peking Duck, posted links to The Granite Studio over the weekend. The result was a doubling of traffic to my [...]

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