Jottings from the Granite Studio

I wrote about this last month based on a piece by Paul Mooney in The National, but this week Inside Higher Education has a longer take on the denial of visas by the Chinese government for scholars and historians working in areas deemed sensitive by the manpurse-toting narrow-minded intellectual gerbils who staff Zhongnanhai Glorious All-Wise [...]

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Author Kerry Brown has an essay up at OpenDemocracy looking at China’s tumultuous 2008 and the cycles and contingencies of history.  Brown reminds us that despite China’s rise, the unity of the modern PRC nation-state is something which can’t be taken for granted, as China’s leaders are all too well aware: the PRC, as heir [...]

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