Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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The stupidity of things past (The tense relationship between the past imperfect and the present progressive)

September 14th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Interesting post on the academic blog, New Kid on the Hallway (”The Glory of Progress“) about the tendency by students and even some scholars to assume that because people from the past didn’t write what we would write or think the way we would think, that somehow this means they were…well, not as smart as [...]

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Tags: Chinese History

Facebook and Procrastination

September 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m now on Facebook which is ridiculous. If blogging is the cocaine of internet time wasting, then Facebook is crack. Seriously. Last night I spent an hour of quality research time creating “Simpson-character” likenesses of YJ and me. Yikes.

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Tags: Beijing Journal · Life in Academia