Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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Online historical photographs: Cultural Revolution and Colonial Taiwan

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Among the very cool history resources available on the web are the online exhibitions of historical photographs.  An increasing number of museums, universities, archives, and private collections are putting old photographs on the Internet, and as I hear about these through listservs and other means I’ll post the links here. 
The first for today is a new online collection of Xinhua News [...]

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Tags: Chinese History

Liu Shaoqi, Birthdays, and Cruel Irony

November 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments

It’s one of those wacky days in Chinese history.
Xinhua reports:
“Chinese officials led by President Hu Jintao on Tuesday marked the 110th anniversary of the birth of Liu Shaoqi, late President and Communist leader who was prosecuted and died during the Cultural Revolution.”
First of all, if they were celebrating his birthday, Hu and the boys were [...]

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Tags: Chinese History · The Historical Record