Jottings from the Granite Studio

 ”100 Years of Humiliation.“ It’s a phrase so common, I think most people have unfortunately stopped listening.   An essay by author Lijia Zhang in The Guardian contains this quote from 67-year old Beijing resident Xie Fengzhi: “I want foreigners to see what China has achieved. We were called the ’sick man of Asia’. Now we are [...]

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