Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Monday Morning Tea: Hutong tour…"Cute Japanese"…The return of stolen relics…Central Asian influences during the Qin

September 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I spent yesterday cruising around the hutongs with a group of my students as well as our program director and Fang Laoshi, a descendant of Manchu bannermen and a real Beijing history buff. Fang Laoshi was a treasure trove of information as we wound our way down Chang’an Dajie, through Tiananmen, up to Houhai and [...]

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