Jottings from the Granite Studio

I’m clearly not getting enough roughage in my diet…

Can we all get on board with the idea that whatever you feel about Τibet, the PRC, or the price of cabbage in Zhengzhou, when protesting the Olympic torch relay: leave the athletes alone? Is that too much to ask? And this goes for both sides.

That said, […]

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There’s been quite a lot going on over the past month in the news and in the blogosphere and it’s a real honor to be this month’s host for the 14th installment of the Asian History Carnival. If I hadn’t spent the last month scouring the internet for worthy entries (seeing as I received exactly […]

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Perhaps I’m the only one, but whenever I’m standing in Tiαnαnmen square, one thing I always wonder–after A) could I outrun a tank and B) No, I don’t want to see your special student art exhibit for foreign friends–is just how do they keep the giant portrait of Mao so shiny and new?
Now we know. […]

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