Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Nixon and Mao: 35 Years Later

February 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I guess I’ve been shirking my responsibilities as a blogger lately. This past week marks 35 years since Nixon traveled to China to shake hands with Mao in a meeting that “shook the world.” Up to now, I’ve relegated this monumental event to a series in the “Image of the Day” section of the blog [...]

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