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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Eight Days to 08/08/08: The good, the bad, and the usual weirdness

I haven’t read the book in years, so memory might fail, but I seem to recall a line (perhaps the opening line) from William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer: “The sky was the color of a tv set turned to a dead station.”

Such is Beijing.

Beijing has announced ‘special environmental measures’ that can be implemented on an ad hoc [...]

July 31st, 2008 | Tags: | Category: 2008 Olympics, Beijing Journal | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)