China Blog Awards

Jottings from the Granite Studio has been nominated for the 2007 China Blog Awards. First of all kudos to Chinalyst for organizing the voting and to Ryan at Lost Laowai/Life in Suzhou for designing the cool logo/image.

Now: shameless plug time…if you like the blog, give us your vote. As of the last tally, we’re hanging out in third place after one week of voting. The polls are open until July 31.

The competition is broken down into different categories and, for reasons not easily explained, we’re classified as “news.” Doesn’t matter. You can vote as often as you like for as many blogs as you like so, as they say back home in the Granite State…Vote early and vote often. (Oh yeah, and vote for us!)

Lin Biao, rehabilitated?

Mao’s “closest comrade in arms” Lin Biao is finding his way back into Chinese history, 36 years after the former defense minister died fleeing from a failed coup attempt against the Chinese leader.

From the IHT:

A portrait of Lin Biao is included in a display of the “Ten Marshals,” a group lauded as founders of China’s armed forces, at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

“With objective thinking, we decided to put the picture of Lin Biao together with the other nine marshals,” Jiang Tingyu, senior researcher at the museum, was quoted as saying. “We have to show history as it was.”

Analysis of Lin’s military accomplishments by academics has been more objective since the 1980s but his portrait has rarely been displayed with the other nine Marshals since his death in 1971. The latest display, which still comes as a surprise, indicates that the Communist leadership is recognizing his contributions.

In 1971 Lin Biao, Mao’s handpicked successor and the compiler of the Little Red Book, got tired of waiting for the Great Helsman to finally go and meet Marx. Wary of Mao’s record with sidekicks (where have you

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