Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Friday Morning Tea: Free Oiwan Lam…Forbidden City for stat geeks…Slate and Bushisms…PRI and Young China…HtWW and Lu Xun in Japan…Vote for us

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Hong Kong-based citizen journalist and Global Voices Online contributor Oiwan Lam is facing charges of indecency in Hong Kong for posting an artsy topless photograph found on Flickr. She is facing a lengthy–and expensive–court battle and needs your help. The case has quickly become a cause célèbre in the China blogosphere. More information [...]

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Visa applications and extensions just got a little more difficult

July 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Since many researchers are here on some cobbled-together amalgam of dodgy Z visas, F visas, and/or multiple extensions of an L visa…the pre-Olympic “harmonization” of the foreign community may have implications for research plans in the PRC beginning this month:
From Today in China:

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