Crazy Thursday…class at 1:30 (where I previewed my latest CD “The Entire Chinese Revolution in 90 Easy Minutes”) and then a day of dealing with one of those student issues that make you regret becoming an administrator as opposed to just a humble (but much poorer) history teacher. On top of that I’m crashing a deadline for a book review. Nevertheless, China marches on and there’s no shortage of hijinks and crazy links even on a Thursday such as this.
Lest anyone forget, today is the designated day to remember the founding of the Communist Party back on July 23, 1921. Why do we celebrate it on July 1? Yeah, I don’t know either. I also managed to write nearly 2000 words yesterday about the Opium War and forgot to mention that July 1 is the anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC. Whoops.
The Wall Street Journal China Real Time Report links to a post by a “senior official at the China Academy of Social Sciences” who has a new plan to solve China’s problem of income inequality: “steal from the rich and give to the poor.” Seems to me that was the original plan…