Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Notes from the classroom: Papers and benevolent dictatorships

November 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I usually have two exams and two papers for my courses.  This semester, for reasons passing understanding, I decided on three papers and two exams.  I think somewhere in a brain addled with Olympic enthusiasm, I wanted to shorten the exams (eliminating the essays) and make up that material as part of a “paper.”  Not [...]

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Jeff Wasserstrom: Linkages and Protests

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I attended a talk “Tale of Two Cities” given by UCI’s Jeff Wasserstrom.  Professor Wasserstrom is a historian and prolific author, online at The China Beat and The Nation as well as in the real world of books, most recently China’s Brave New World and the forthcoming Global Shanghai: 1850-2010.
I admire the way Professor Wasserstrom engages in [...]

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