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APSA 2010
Another APSA into the history books. The last DC APSA, IIRC, was the year of Hurricane Katrina. I have memories of staying up and watching the disaster unfold through the odd medium of NOAA’s bulletins with their ALL CAPS and ellipses style. As time has passed, APSA increasingly becomes a reunion. As a graduate student,…
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Welcome Back
I’m trying to get back to writing to keep up with everything that is going on these days. Expect to see information on China, urbanization, slums, redistributive policy, and whatever else that catches my eye.
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The Wire
I love the show. I really do. I am sad that it will go. I would love to see the 6th season, which will not happen (as of this time) but if it were to be made would focus on the influx of Latino immigrants to Baltimore. That being said, some things that were said…
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Stability is the Name of the Game
Another perhaps baffling policy shift by the Chinese government: China to Limit Exports of Labor-Intensive Products This title is misleading because in many ways the real shift in policy is to encourage development of industry and investment in the interior: Manufacturers can be exempted from the exports limit if they shift their production to inland…
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Food for Thought
Some graphs that I’m creating putting together an APSA paper on Chinese social stability. All data are from the China Statistical Yearbook, various years.
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Karakoram Highway
It has been 11 days since my last post, and blogger had forgotten me. This will be the last post on the wonderful Xinjiang trip that was. Then to more dissertation related issues. From Kashgar, we headed south. First were the amazing vistas on our way to some of the highest fresh water lakes in…
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Kashgar’s Sunday Bazaar(s)
Beijing has “wholesale markets” where stalls filled with infinite varieties of, well, anything. Our local “pifa” has detergent and fake designer jeans and squash racquets and mp3 players (or mp4 players, for that matter). Kashgar’s Bazaar reaches its full form only on Sundays. Jess and I arrived early, around 10:30am. [Time, it is worth noting,…
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Urumqi International Airport
Some notes jotted down while toting baggage through Urumqi’s airport: Announcements in Mandarin and Uighyur Arabic/Persian script, Chinese characters, and English signage Flight seemed very Han, as are the workers at the airport China’s ubiquitous construction is here CCTV on the tube Alcohol is sold Some women in head scarves and some in short skirts
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Strategic Pork Reserves
Another interruption in Xinjiang blogging due to an excellent piece on Chinese pork prices in the NYT by Keith Bradsher. The main story has been pointed out below on this blog. Food prices, particularly pork, seem to be on the rise. In addition to covering the basics, Bradsher goes running with the pigs. You see,…
Jeremy Wallace 