Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Friday Happy Hour: Pirates of the South China Sea…Don’t mess with a King’s rep…fortune telling and the Year of the Pig…baseball in Japan

February 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Chow Yun-fat is starring in the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean as Chinese pirate Sao Feng. (Whose name refers to the classical Chinese poem: “The Asian market, he whispered/at a board meeting for Disney/how best to capture it/hire a Chinese guy/said the marketing rep softly.”) Piracy in China has a [...]

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