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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Beijing Redux
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We had a lovely trip to Beijing, though the housing situation was less than ideal. At first, the four of us were in one hostel, but Deborah ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Public Baths and Electric Showers
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Many people in China have no shower in their apartment still so they make a weekly sojourn to the public bathhouse. As I have, for months, h...
Friday, January 25, 2013
The 嗡嗡 (wēng wēng) of Your Complaints
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Over the last few weeks, I have had a wonderful time talking to Chinese friends about the differences in onomatopoeia (拟声) between English...
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Counterfactual History Perfected
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The librarian from my law school and another friend teamed up to send me a copy of Barbara Tuchman's Practicing History for Christmas. ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Deadly Cost of Wars in China
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One of the more fascinating discoveries I have made in the last few weeks is that when it comes to war deaths, internecine conflicts in Chin...
Goat Cheek for Lunch
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This is me this afternoon at one of my favorite restaurants in Changchun, which serves food from ethnically Chinese Muslims, or Hui zu . We ...
Friday, January 4, 2013
Seven Sages, Six Arts, Five Punishments, Four Novels, etc., etc., and so forth
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Everything Important is Countable in China Seven Sages The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan schola...
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