@bumingbai.net ”Rejuvenating Communism” is available in Open Access (pdf and epub) from the UMich Press web site, along with several other interesting looking books in the China Understandings Today series.
press.umich.edu/Books/R/Reju…
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@lrb.co.uk Somehow there wasn’t room in my life for a @lrb.co.uk subscription, a full-time job and a full-time family.
Still thinking perhaps I should have cancelled the family instead…
@Havn Too much friction is bad, but not enough friction makes it difficult to go anywhere at all.
@jeremywallace.bsky.social Hmm, Fried, not Crispy, intriguing…
@grangarden.bsky.social Thank you, that’s a nice blog post. Here’s the text on ctext:
ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=g…
@samuelwa.de This is basically me, except I’ve never read Banks, I suppose I’ll have to do something about that.
Hope is also something I associate with the Narnia books. I must have read them fifteen times at an impressionable age.
Didn’t make me catholic, though, but it did do something…
@jmulich.bsky.social Apart from the already mentioned I occasionally listen to The Reporter’s The Real Story (www.twreporter.org/categories/p…) and 声东击西 (etw.fm).
@olawikander.bsky.social Reminds me of when I took Cantonese at Lund University ages ago and we used to make puns that only were funny if you understood Cantonese and skånska. Sadly I’ve since lost most of both languages.
@grangarden.bsky.social If you do find the time I’d be grateful, but I know moving house is exhausting.