Happy holidays to you and your family from Jeremiah, YJ, Chairman Mao, the ghost of Zeng Guofan, a couple of hutong cats, and the rest of us here at the Granite Studio. Enjoy the day!
Recommended Reading- Kunming Protests Met with Heavy Police Presence
- When You Grow Up |An Excerpt from “Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West” by Peter Hessler
- Standing at the Center of China's War of Words - NYTimes.com
- Big Reforms on the Way for China's Economy? - Damien Ma - The Atlantic
- City in Ruins: The Legacy of Sichuan's Big Earthquake - Matt Schiavenza - The Atlantic
- Friendly with the Dalai Lama? Good luck talking with Beijing - by Peter Ford/CSM
- Reform can end loose talk of a Chinese revolution - FT.com //by Deng Yuwen
- Former Red Guard leader calls for Mao's portrait to be removed from Tiananmen - Shanghaiist
- The Trust Deficit - by He Yafei - Foreign Policy (blog)
- The Dalai Lama’s Self-Immolation Dilemma
- The latest on Rectified.name 正名
- Survey Says… OopsCross-posted at the unmothballed Mutant Palm. Max Fisher at The Washington Post ran a blog post last week featuring a world map of “racial tolerance” based on data from the World Values Survey (WVS), and it didn’t take long before the collective peer review power of Tufts University and Reddit found at least two examples of “fat fingers” where a “no, I don’t […]Dave Lyons
- Greeted as LiberatorsI recall it as being Sunday, March 17, 2003, that the administrative liaison called all six foreign English teachers to a meeting in one of our on-campus apartments, but it might have been Monday, since I also remember that the visit was precipitated by President George W. Bush’s 48-hour “High Noon” ultimatum for the Hussein […]Dave Lyons
- Pro wrestling as American soft power so why not Jerry Springer?Would American-style pro wrestling be a hit in China? Maybe. But why not just embrace the stereotype and syndicate old episodes of the Jerry Springer show? […]Jeremiah Jenne
- Willing to Pay – On the Cost of Living in ChinaIn December of last year I made a statement that startled the students enrolled in my Chinese economic development course: that prices overall in China were high relative to prices of goods in the United States. […]Brian Eyler
- Moving the Capital, or, The Unbearable Heaviness of BeijingGovernment officials are planning to move the capital of China to Xinyang, a little city in Henan you’ve never heard of! I know this to be true because some guy on Weibo said it a couple of weeks ago. Tea Leaf Nation has a post up about the chatter. This isn’t particularly new. Wang Ping, […]Brendan O'Kane
- Survey Says… Oops
Merry Christmas, guys.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays and enjoy that snow. I hope it’s white, unlike the snow here in Tianjin, which is dark and gritty and was not much more than a thimbleful compared to NH, but was able to paralyze the place.
is hua guofeng forgotten so soon?
no snow down here, but plenty of good cheer. merry christmas to you and YJ!