What we’ve been reading recently:

Economist: Fondly remembering a deflationary China - The Economist’s Free Exchange economics blog reports that China has shifted from an deflationary force in the world to an inflationary one. | Economist deflation economics inflation

Annals of Communications: THE MICROSOFT PROVOCATEUR: The New Yorker - Nathan Myrhvold, a Bill Gates’ former strategic partner at Microsoft, warned his company about “cloud computing” 13 years ago. Earlier, he also predicted the demise of newspapers because of the “information highway.” | Microsoft internet technology

International Herald Tribune: 3 dead in Shanghai bus explosion - “A rush-hour fire and explosion on a Shanghai bus Monday killed three people and injured at least 12, local police and state media reports said.” -cause still unknown | Shanghai china

The China Beat: Critical Han Studies Conference Report - “Like critical theories of Whiteness as an invented racial category which shifts over time, Critical Han studies will cast an analytic eye on China?s racial majority.” - much needed! | china race social

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