Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Morning Tea: Chinese pollution in California, Hollywood’s first Asian-American sex symbol, China Bowl 2007 Update

February 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Der Spiegel online has a good overview of China’s environmental problems including a study done by researchers from UC Davis on pollution from China along the California coastline. (Via Arts & Letter Daily)

Long before the controversies surrounding Zhang Ziyi and Bai Ling, there was Anna May Wong. In the new edition of Danwei.tv’s Sexy Beijing [...]

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Tags: Chinese History · sports

US-China: A Turn for the Worse?

February 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Following up on a piece that I posted over at The Peking Duck, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), commissioned by Congress in [...]

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Tags: Chinese politics

IHT: Steamrolling Antiquities

February 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments

The International Herald Tribune reported yesterday on the twin threats to Chinese antiquities posed by the country’s construction boom and the continued looting of archaeological sites. A great deal has been written about the measures being taken at sites for Olympic venues around the city of Beijing to try and preserve the enormous cache of [...]

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Tags: Chinese History