Jottings from the Granite Studio

Mara Hvistendahl writes in The New Republic this week about the possibilities of future unrest and social ills as unintended consequences of China’s One Child Policy.  I wrote a little something about this last year:
There are many factors that can contribute to social instability and political unrest, but having a large population of young, underemployed, and [...]

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A link from reader Scott Loar relating to a previous post on paleoanthropology, race, and Chinese nationalism: This month’s issue of Scientific American contains an article by Gary Stix on DNA research which bolsters the ‘out of Africa’ theory of human evolution.
Where’s the China connection? Well, as I have blogged about before, the idea that the [...]

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We’re back for Part II of the 20th Asian History Carnival. As one correspondent drolly noted after going through yesterday’s links, there is more to Asia than China and more to China than Beijing.  Really? I dunno. I’m one of those annoying pseudo-Beijingers who feel the world pretty much drops off after the Fourth Ring [...]

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