花崗齋雜記

Jottings from the Granite Studio provides commentary, analysis, and opinion on China and Chinese history. It is written by Jeremiah Jenne, a PhD Candidate at a large public research university in Northern California. Currently, Jeremiah is in Beijing teaching history, doing archival research, and working on his dissertation.

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M(a)o’ Money, M(a)o’ Problems…

There seems to be a (I’m guessing not very large, but who knows?) movement afoot to take Mao off of the 100 RMB note and replace him, apropos of this weekend’s festivities, with Qu Yuan.

Aileen McCabe of the Camwest News Service reports:

An open letter, drafted by author Ling Cangzhou and signed by 11 colleagues, says: [...]

June 8th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Chinese History, Chinese politics | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Symbolic Obama

Anne-Marie Slaughter writing at the Huffington Post on Senator Obama:

The cliché is true; he makes us proud to be Americans. That feeling was particularly strong for me because of a recent conversation I had in Beijing with a number of Chinese academics and fairly high-ranking party officials. The conversation quickly turned to American politics, and it [...]

June 8th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Chinese politics, Life in China, US Politics | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)