It’s hot. It’s smoggy. It’s summer in Beijing. Beijingers might call this “fog” but if so, then I think it was the “fog” which just killed one of my plants. No matter. It’s that time of the year when your correspondent likes to take a little summer vacation. Keep in mind in my line of “work”, vacation is defined more as “time to catch up on and/or try to complete dissertation chapters, overdue writing projects, promised book reviews, and next year’s syllabi.” But one thing I won’t be doing too much between now and the end of August is blogging. I know many, if not both, of my readers, will miss my irregular updates but fear not…I’ll be back on September 10.
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The CCP has no idea how much they will miss this incarnation of the DL when he’s gone, because the 14th incarnation is their Arafat. 
Academic memoirs are a bit like autobiographies of aging porn stars: fascinating to those who follow the business closely, incomprehensible to those who don’t, and a perfect place to name all the people who screwed you on your way to the top. 
I haven’t done a good “Dear China, WTF?” post in quite some time, so sit back and let me tell you about the “Adventure of Buying a Basketball.” 
In today’s China, it is government censorship which gives credibility to unsubstantiated rumors, and that turns rumors into news. |
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