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	<title>Jottings from the Granite Studio</title>
	
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	<description>A Qing historian reads the newspaper...a blog about China and Chinese history.</description>
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		<title>Off to Hunan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year.  Or decade.  Or something.  The stars have finally aligned and YJ and I actually have time off at the same time,* so we&#8217;re packing our bags and heading to the birthplace of Chairman Mao, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and really freaking spicy food&#8230;Hunan.  No offense to Hunan&#8217;s most famous [...]<br/>
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		<title>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iranian Fenqing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brief Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fenqing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The (increasingly nervous) supreme leader of Iran speaking on the demonstrations this week in his country:
The ayatollah reached beyond Iran to criticize “media belonging to Zionists, evil media” for seeking to portray Iran as divided and accused what he called arrogant Western powers, particularly Britain and the United States, of hostile comments, saying they failed [...]<br/>
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		<title>Why I teach history, Part IX: The Middle Kingdom and Middle Earth?</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/19/why-i-teach-history-part-ix-the-middle-kingdom-and-middle-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese History]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Now some teachers will write about their students, sharing odd or quizzical bits from papers and exams for the sake of humor.  I wouldn&#8217;t do that to my students, but OTHER people&#8217;s students&#8230;sure, why not?
From an op-ed on China and North Korea in Student Newspaper from the University of Southern State, USA*:
The Chinese mentality is [...]<br/>
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		<title>“Apologies for the past are due Chinese descendants”</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/18/apologies-for-the-past-are-due-chinese-descendants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Politics]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[California Assemblyman Paul Fong (D &#8211; 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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Green Dam, spring break sorority girls, and Jaime Escalante (yes, there IS a connection.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a tech guy, but I despise state-sponsored censorship, so I&#8217;ve been following the epic fail of the Green Dam software with a certain admitted sense of schadenfreude.  The whole thing has been a disaster from the start which is rather amazing given the usual attention Chinese state-owned companies pay to such things as [...]<br/>
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		<title>“Asian Poses”</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/11/asian-poses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is either an online photographic archive documenting an interesting cultural phenomenon which touches on a host of issues worthy of further study and research&#8230;or a fetish site.  Could go either way.
(h/t Sinosplice via Adam Schokora via Twitter).<br/>
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		<title>Letters of Hu Shi purchased by Chinese government bureau</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/10/letters-of-hu-shi-purchased-by-chinese-government-bureau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chen Duxiu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Li Dazhao]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From The People&#8217;s Daily Online:
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) bought the rare manuscripts of Hu Shi&#8217;s letters at the price of 5,544,000 yuan in China Guardian&#8217;s 2009 Spring Auction Saturday. It is the first time the State decided to use the preemptive right to buy a cultural relic.
Dozens of letters between New Culture [...]<br/>
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		<title>New Global Times Column: Basketball and Sino-US Relations…no, really.</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/10/new-global-times-column-basketball-and-sino-us-relationsno-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jottings in other places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Another week another column for The Global Times.  (And in case you&#8217;re wondering, my soul feels no less decayed than usual.)  This one is on basketball with a little foreign relations thrown in by way of metaphor.  Enjoy.<br/>
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		<title>More terracotta army secrets to be revealed</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/09/more-terracotta-army-secrets-to-be-revealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qin Shihuangdi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xian]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Work in the sites around the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi has proceeded in fits and starts since the terracotta soldiers were first discovered in 1974.  In recent years, Chinese archaeologists have held at bay local officials eager to develop tourism at all costs, and instead approached further excavation cautiously, seeking to avoid damaging priceless antiquities [...]<br/>
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		<title>Asian history online: CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts Online)</title>
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		<comments>http://granitestudio.org/2009/06/09/asian-history-online-chant-chinese-ancient-texts-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Resources]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Via Asian Studies WWW Monitor:
Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) Database
Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, Institute of Chinese
Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China.
A description of, a guided tour, and online contents of:
* Jiaguwen &#8211; A Database of Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells
and Bones [Database Contents: inscriptions found on 53,834 fragments
of shells and bones [...]<br/>
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