花崗齋雜記

Jottings from the Granite Studio provides commentary, analysis, and opinion on China and Chinese history. It is written by Jeremiah Jenne, a PhD Candidate at a large public research university in Northern California. Currently, Jeremiah is in Beijing teaching history, doing archival research, and working on his dissertation.

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“Apologies for the past are due Chinese descendants”

California Assemblyman Paul Fong (D – Mountain View) is seeking federal reparations for the discrimination suffered by Chinese immigrants coming to the United States in the 19th and early 20th century.

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Mountain View, wants us to remember that when the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor [...]

June 18th, 2009 | Category: Chinese History, US Politics | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Symbolic Obama

Anne-Marie Slaughter writing at the Huffington Post on Senator Obama:

The cliché is true; he makes us proud to be Americans. That feeling was particularly strong for me because of a recent conversation I had in Beijing with a number of Chinese academics and fairly high-ranking party officials. The conversation quickly turned to American politics, and it [...]

June 8th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Chinese politics, Life in China, US Politics | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)