China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance available today

Okay, so I’m actually getting published somewhere that isn’t on a site I personally run.  It’s going to be on paper, with ink, and in libraries and everything.  So…yeah, that’s kind of cool for a grad student.

China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance is a collection edited by Kate Merkel-Hess and based on the successful group blog The China Beat.  My own small contribution is an essay on Granite Studio fave Hua Guofeng entitled, drolly enough, “Hua Guofeng: Remembering a Forgotten Leader.”  I wanted to call it “Hua Guofeng: I was a Chairman, too and Deng Xiaoping can kiss my ass” but the editors didn’t feel that fit the theme.

Not to let my own ego run amok, because the real reason to buy the book is the stunning collection of historians, China scholars, and noted journalists who contributed material: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Leslie T. Chang, Peter Hessler, Pankaj Mishra, Howard French, Xujun Eberlein, David Bandurski, Geremie R. Barmé, Kenneth Pomeranz, Timothy Weston…and I’m stopping there lest this start to sound like I’m a basketball announcer.

Check it out.

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