I got an email today from a person who works for the New York Times in China. The person just wanted to know if I had contact information for someone in Beijing.
Another visitor to the site today was from "jhmi.edu." Clicked on that, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the post read was on...China. Most hits I get from an edu suffix are China-related. Johns Hopkins Medical on China?
Before that, a Pulitzer Prize winning author...China.
Before that, Dr. Ruth. Dr. Youqin Wang, Dr. Rongfen Wang, Zhou Jineng, Hu Jie, Zhang Mu, Dr. Weimin Mo. Lotta folks. Lotta folks I've conversated with on China since ought-six.
I'm rusty on China. I was rusty even when Jennifer Ruth and I were emailing frequently last year. She'd write something or ask something and, especially in the beginning, I had to respond "I think," "I'm not sure now," "That sounds right." It had been a long time since I had been immersed in the Cultural Revolution. And I was immersed!
If nothing else, Public Occurrences will be known for the China work. We'll always have Beijing.
