Jottings from the Granite Studio

Of all the hoary myths that pervade US media writing on China, one that irks historians quite a bit is the hoary chestnut of an inert, uncompromising China being “opened” by the dynamic, technologically and politically advanced West in the 19th century.
Prefacing his review in this week’s The Nation, foreign policy author John Feffer compares [...]

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