Jottings from the Granite Studio

I get a lot of weird hits on my site that have nothing to do with history. Because I wrote a piece on the Chinabounder debacle called “Sex in Shanghai,” I get a lot of hits looking for things like “sex” and “Chinese woman,” etc. At first I thought it was odd, but now I’m [...]

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It must be Genghis Khan week here at The Studio. A post with a long-ish provenance, this one is from the LA Times and the Mahablog and via the group history blog Cliopatria and Jonathan Dresner, the man behind the cornerstone of the Chinese history blogosphere, Frog in a Well.
What would Genghis do? Or [...]

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