Jottings from the Granite Studio

It got lost in the Christmas hoopla this year, so my apologies for not mentioning that Tuesday was the 113th anniversary of the birth of former Peking University librarian’s assistant and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong.

With Mao’s birthday so close to Christmas, perhaps we could make the Yuletide more palatable to the CCP and irate grad students throughout the middle kingdom by simply combining these two celebrations. What might that look like?

Or maybe something more classic, via contemporary artist Zhang Hongtu’s MoMao website.

Ah well, maybe Christmas and the Helmsman won’t ever be an easy fit.