Category Archives: Jottings in other places

Passengers booted off of KLM plane

Flight attendants on international carriers are very particular about safety guidelines. Many upwardly mobile Chinese tend to believe that rules are for other people. Hilarity often ensues. Continue reading

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Sinica Podcast: Revenge of the Call-in Show

Last week I joined Kaiser and Jeremy for the second “Call-in” show in which the Sinica regulars take questions from the listeners. Continue reading

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In case you missed it…Yajun writing in The Guardian about the Foshan Hit-and-run Case

Yajun writing in The Guardian last week: “As many Chinese web users have written, it’s possible that there is a kind of sickness in Chinese society that has infected us to our core, and which has been growing for a long time.” Continue reading

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Two more posts up at The Atlantic Monthly site

Two new posts at the Atlantic Monthly: an update on renewed calls for demonstrations this weekend in China and a meditation on the meaning of drought in Chinese history. Continue reading

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Two new posts for James Fallows on the Atlantic Monthly site

Today was a busy day. Yajun is by herself in the Beijing office writing a story on new calls for a revolution this weekend even as the PSB is busy rounding up the usual suspects.  I was teaching today, 90 … Continue reading

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