Comments on: Top-of-the-Week Links: Bo Xilai and the Cultural Revolution, FC Shenhua inks another import, and a reminder that Chai Happens

By: The Tao

The Tao — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:58:15 +0000

Appreciate the comment. Related to Chai-Na, check out these artists protesting at Beijing’s Zhengyang Creative Art Zone (disclosure: my old blog):

Not Peter Hessler — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:52:29 +0000

Sorry to be that Peter Hessler quoting commenter — especially on such a faultless blog — but he did get there first, and more amusingly.

Oracle Bones, p229:
“We live in chai nar,” he used to say. It sounded like the English word “China,” but it meant “Demolish where?”