{"id":158,"date":"2006-08-27T01:38:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/08\/miscellany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:41:08","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/08\/miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/41.html\">HNN<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a 270-year old antique building! It&#8217;s a brothel! <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=13219715&#038;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">Monument or Disgrace<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/200608\/15\/eng20060815_293315.html\">Neolithic astronomy<\/a>: Big Dipper in ancient stone.<\/li>\n<li>Paper Production Pushed Previous: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0%2C%2C25689-2305850%2C00.html\">Linen paper scraps from B.C.E.<\/a> revise chronology<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v52\/i49\/49a01201.htm\">Judaism boom<\/a> [subscription required, but you can read a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/29098.html\">here<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/china.org.cn\/english\/2006\/Aug\/177463.htm\">Xia dynasty workshop<\/a> (c. 2100-1600 bce) in recently discovered imperial city.<\/li>\n<li>Nanjing massacre deniers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/china\/story\/0,,1856506,00.html\">hit with defamation lawsuit in China<\/a>. Being a Chinese lawsuit, it has no legal force in Japan as such, but it does raise interesting issues about liability when working with oral history and living testimony. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/29491.html\">via<\/a>] In other Nanjing massacre news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/15\/arts\/15arts.html\">plans to make a movie<\/a> about the atrocity. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/29230.html\">via<\/a>] They&#8217;re calling it a Chinese equivalent to &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s list&#8221;: They could make a thoroughly parallel film by focusing on John Rabe&#8230;. The plan is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-08\/14\/content_664447.htm\">debut next year on the 70th anniversary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of anniversaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1104AP_INT_China_Weblog.html\">Cultural Revolution anniversary<\/a>: 40 years ago, this month&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From other sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/541341?src=mp\">Traditional Chinese Medicine<\/a>, aka TCM: neither traditional, nor Chinese, nor medicine (<a href=\"http:\/\/rhineriver.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/holy-and-roman-and-yes-empire.html\">apologies<\/a>) [<a href=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/insolence\/~3\/14919705\/the_real_history_of_traditional_chinese.php\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><b>Update<\/b>: Ralph Luker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/29513.html\">catalog of women history bloggers<\/a> includes a few of our own!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via HNN It&#8217;s a 270-year old antique building! It&#8217;s a brothel! Monument or Disgrace? Neolithic astronomy: Big Dipper in ancient stone. Paper Production Pushed Previous: Linen paper scraps from B.C.E. revise chronology Judaism boom [subscription required, but you can read a bit here] Xia dynasty workshop (c. 2100-1600 bce) in recently discovered imperial city. 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