{"id":181,"date":"2006-11-04T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/11\/monthly-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:40:09","slug":"monthly-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/11\/monthly-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

The carnivals roll on<\/b>: Nathanael Robinson hosted<\/a> the last AHC<\/a>, and did a very nice job. The next edition will be hosted by our very own Owen Miller<\/a> in a week or so: get your nominations<\/a> in soon! And we’re looking for more AHC hosts: we’ve got open spots from December on.<\/p>\n

After a return engagement by founding host John McKay<\/a>, the Carnival of Bad History<\/a> is moving to England, where Natalie Bennett<\/a> will be collecting historical turkeys for the pre-Thanksgiving edition.\n<\/p>\n

As always, your best source for good<\/i> history is the History Carnival<\/a>, hosted this time at longtime contributor (especially to the Bad History carnival) Sergey Romanov. In two weeks, another edition: submit here<\/a>. And the latest Early Modern edition<\/a> of Carnivalesque<\/a> features a tabloid cover and lots of great stuff. I believe they’re still looking for volunteers for hosts. <\/p>\n

Almost forgot<\/b>: The Cliopatria Award Nominations<\/a> are open through November: Best Blogs (individual, group, new), Best Post (individual and series) and Best Writing. Pick your favorites and add ’em to the list!<\/p>\n

And Now, the News<\/b>…<\/p>\n

Alun Salt has some nice thoughts and links on The Needham Question<\/a>, one of the great driving forces of Sci\/Tech history in Asia.<\/p>\n

It’s not Chinese history, but Chinese historian Andrew Meyer has a strong argument in favor of US withdrawal from Iraq<\/a> which deserves wider attention. I’m not entirely convinced, but it does point out the need for fundamental shifts in direction and method.<\/p>\n

Bill quotes cyberpunk novelist Neal Stephenson on the tension between the Chinese state and new information technologies<\/a>. This was written back in the early 90s, by the way….<\/p>\n

Orville Schell’s review of Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals’ Mao’s Last Revolution<\/i><\/a> is a detailed and very supportive piece. For a more literary take on the GPCR, there’s Da Chen’s new novel<\/a>, which sounds very interesting, though I admit that I’ve never read any<\/i> Da Chen before….<\/p>\n

Jonathan Benda reports on a new movie<\/a> about Taiwanese independence activists harassed by spies — Taiwanese spies, no less — in the US<\/p>\n

HK Dave meditates<\/a> on the last<\/i> Communist regime to go nuclear.<\/p>\n

Lots of new stuff up at the anti-Menzies site 1421 Exposed<\/i><\/a>, including my personal favorite, Kirsten Seaver’s demolition of his North American East Coast colonies theories<\/a>.[via<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Great Wall’s been in the news a lot lately: attracting rowdy tourists<\/a>, photographed by an English runner<\/a>, and facing an official survey to determine its true scale<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Other Chinese archaeological discoveries include 4500 year old writing<\/a> and Han-era tunnels under Imperial compounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via wood s lot<\/a>, guerrilla art in China<\/a> and an exhibition of new Chinese video and photographic art<\/a><\/p>\n

Friendship Store<\/a>, a refuge for foreigners in Beijing since its founding just before the Cultural Revolution, is being upgraded, part of the ongoing Olympic facelift.<\/p>\n

Harvard-Yenching Library, my old stomping grounds, has an online exhibition<\/a> of photographs of Chinese Muslims from the 1920s and 1930s.<\/p>\n

A new publication I really ought to pick up, given my research interests and family ties to the home of the World Series Winning Cardinals: Chinese St. Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The richest person in China is recycling US scrap paper<\/a>. There’s the global economy in a nutshell, eh?<\/p>\n

Finally, because this is a Frog website, I have to share one of my son’s favorite sites, National Aquarium’s Frog Chorus<\/a>. It’s like the blogging soundtrack we never had….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The carnivals roll on: Nathanael Robinson hosted the last AHC, and did a very nice job. The next edition will be hosted by our very own Owen Miller in a week or so: get your nominations in soon! And we’re looking for more AHC hosts: we’ve got open spots from December on. After a return…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-2V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}