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Illegal iron ore mining is damaging the eastern Qing tombs. Actually mining is too delicate a word for the process—basically people are blowing up huge chunks of land and then looking to see if there any cool rocks that look like iron underneath. According to the IHT, “China‘s heritage protection laws ban [...] Tony Platt of Sac State reviews a new book by historian Jean Pfaelzer on the persecution of Chinese-Americans in 19th-century California. Between 1840 and 1900, more than 2 million Chinese laborers left their homeland to work in plantations and mines around the world. Twenty-five thousand of them joined [...] Why can’t everybody stop fighting? Can’t we just all get along? Oh yeah, I forgot…because in East Asia, the study of history and the need to save political face while symbolically shifting ancient boundaries around to meet contemporary geo-political exigencies go together like a horse and carriage, PB&J, and Harry & Sally. [...] |
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