{"id":268,"date":"2007-06-11T02:35:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T07:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/06\/accumulated-history-a-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:37","slug":"accumulated-history-a-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/06\/accumulated-history-a-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Accumulated History: A miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, stuff for which I don&#8217;t give a tip of the hat mostly came from HNN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pushing back, archaeology style: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6669569.stm\">8000 year old writing<\/a> probably early form of Chinese script, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070509\/lf_afp\/chinaheritagegreatwall;_ylt=AuMJeQIIw7rrvG7sjmvDRpHMWM0F\">the northernmost section of the Great Wall<\/a>. Also, if you are doing naval work on China, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article1782139.ece\">The Red Navy&#8217;s got your back<\/a>, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2007-04\/24\/content_857933.htm\">there&#8217;s gold in them &#8216;thar wrecks<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of expensive Chinese goods, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/04\/10\/nkettle10.xml\">Elizabeth I&#8217;s teakettle sold for over a million pounds<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tombs: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2007\/04\/10\/terracottaarmy_arc.html\">New research on the Qin emperor&#8217;s tomb soldiers<\/a> indicates colorful paints. Also, Henan <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2007-04\/13\/content_5974012.htm\">ancient tombs<\/a> from the late Han or after. <\/li>\n<li>Rebuilding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article1779613.ece\">Stilwell&#8217;s road<\/a> from India to China is being paved. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/05\/070501-tallest-pagoda.html\">World&#8217;s tallest pagoda<\/a> rebuilt to mark Buddhist resurgence (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2072736,00.html\">Nepalese Buddhist Paintings found<\/a>). And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/China\/IE08Ad01.html\">Chinese philosophers<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-confucius7may07,0,623550.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">being ressurected<\/a>. Philosophically speaking, of course. And you thought all that Confucianism v. Buddhism stuff was a relic? Here it comes again!<\/li>\n<li>Revisionism?!? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/04\/070424162511.htm\">New environmental study of the Shang<\/a> draws on very modern techniques and concerns. And <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article1701366.ece\">Censorship official loses job<\/a> for &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; not censoring enough recent history<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/20343\">Roderick MacFarquhar&#8217;s review<\/a> of <i>Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World<\/i> by Margaret MacMillan recaps a lot of the Chinese background for their meeting, especially the weakness of Chinese leadership in the midst of the Cultural Revolution and Sino-Soviet tensions, which made them amenable to compromise on Vietnam. I&#8217;d never really thought about Chinese reaction to the Brezhnev Doctrine before. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/39912.html\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of book reviews, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/39739.html\">a new book about anti-Chinese agitation and activity<\/a> in the US in the 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>Also in book news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&#038;grid=&#038;xml=\/news\/2007\/05\/29\/db2901.xml\">Edward Behr<\/a> has passed away. Readers here will probably know him best for his sympathetic study of Pu Yi, <i>The Last Emperor<\/i>, and for his unsympathetic study of Japan&#8217;s Emperor Hirohito<\/li>\n<li>Big Chinese Cities: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/DBWeb\/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=6151\">Shanghai&#8217;s Back<\/a>! International city, etc., etc&#8230;.. Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/06\/10\/nhong110.xml\">Thatcher says oops<\/a> about Hong Kong handover.<\/li>\n<li>The Biggest Chinese City: Say what you like about <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/38911.html\">libertarians<\/a>, but they take state power seriously, even when the state itself doesn&#8217;t seem to. The headline pretty much says it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSPEK30969020070515\">Beijing bans scary stories to protect young<\/a> (when they&#8217;re not <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070516\/lf_afp\/chinaheritageproperty_070516180910\">demolishing hutongs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2064723,00.html\">Qing-era restaurants<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/china\/article1719945.ece\">old opera houses<\/a>). Black Market Black Magic lit: You could make a really interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/dresden\/\">Dresden Files<\/a> episode out of that, I&#8217;d wager.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of cinematic stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=H1DNTGQ1R3H1VQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=\/news\/2007\/06\/08\/wchina108.xml\">Doomed Romance with Flying Tiger<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Unromantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/05\/21\/nkhan21.xml\">Chiggis Khan ancestor to millions<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t a terribly new story, and the writing of the article is pretty tacky. But it&#8217;s great lecture fodder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/touchstonemag.com\/archives\/article.php?id=20-03-030-f\">Nestorians in China<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/branemrys.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/notes-and-links.html\">via<\/a>] (I recently learned that some people think they made it all the way to Japan!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, stuff for which I don&#8217;t give a tip of the hat mostly came from HNN Pushing back, archaeology style: 8000 year old writing probably early form of Chinese script, and the northernmost section of the Great Wall. Also, if you are doing naval work on China, The Red Navy&#8217;s got your back, because&#8230;<\/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":[96,165,17,112,119,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-china","category-china-us","category-current-events","category-english","category-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-4k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}