For those who have not yet reached their saturation point for 1911 centennial pontificating, be sure to check out this week’s Sinica podcast.
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Part II of The Wire guide to the 1911 Revolution and some closing thoughts on the significance of 1911 in today’s political climate. 
So, I spent the summer rewatching all five seasons of The Wire and the more I watched it, the more I realized that far from being the story of Baltimore, there was a timelessness and placelessness to the Wire that transcended one city. The sense of hope battling the reality of hopelessness, the way rhetoric and political transitions, however dramatic, rarely change the day-to-day lives of the people at the bottom, the thought of Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai taking swings at each other like Stringer and Avon, it occurred to me how much it reminded me of the years before and after the 1911 Revolution. So without further ado, The Wire guide to the 1911 Revolution, Part I. (Warning: Some strong language) 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. |
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