Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Morning Tea: 5000 years?…The greening of Yunnan…How the theme from ‘Shaft’ got involved in the DPRK talks

February 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

1.) Richard at The Peking Duck sticks his head in the dragon’s maw and asks: “How many years does Chinese civilization go back, and what criteria are applied to come up with the famous claim of ‘5,000 years’?” Well, the comments came fast and furious and are well worth checking out. Sam, from The Useless [...]

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