It's a generous and at times catalogic presentation of resources –– journals, people, key interventions –– for those who want to pursue this topic further. Thanks to Ying Qian and Nicholas Bartlett for the opportunity!

It's classic Li Tuo –– full of provocations about how to think China's history after the Cultural Revolution, particularly the return (and rehabilitation) of the intellectual or specialist in economics and culture.

one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier

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Essays on Japanism*

Parts of Maggie Clinton’s book Revolutionary Nativism (fascism and modernist aesthetics in China) and essays and Japanism and aesthetics by Tosaka Jun

archive.org/details/Tosa...

Sorry I missed seeing you!