Jottings from the Granite Studio

Interesting back-and-forth in the British magazine Prospect between Will Hutton, the author of The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, and Meghnad Desai. a former director of the Centre for Global Governance and an emeritus professor of economics at the LSE and a Labour peer.
Hutton leads off:
It is a [...]

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Bowdoin College has devised a interactive website that allows viewers to explore an illustrated scroll painting of “A Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace” from the Tale of the Heiji Rebellion (heiji monogatari emaki). Visitors to this site are taken on a tour of the scroll, revealing both its artistry and its historical significance. The [...]

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