Isn't it wonderful when the news actually echoes one's own more obscure interests and information quests. I was pondering today the disconnect between the endless stream of e-mails I get from India offering technical and publishing services and the almost complete e-mail silence otherwise, even from scholars. I am in constant touch with Chinese scholars, even
My friend Isaac Mao suggested I make a special offer of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China via Twitter. Dell is apparently doing this and, heck, what's to stop a tiny reference publisher from doing the same? Creating the first big general audience Encyclopedia of China to be outside China itself took so much chutzpah -- or
Here's the e-card I sent out a few days ago with news and links to sample pages and Table of Contents for the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, and here you see the finalized cover with its five colors representing the five elements, one of the many ways we are showing aspects of Chinese culture
Massachusetts has a "one-day, one-trial" system according to the lisping Chief Justice of the Commonwealth's Supreme Court who did the video introduction we saw this morning. Maybe it wasn't a lisp but an obscure upper-class accent -- but I've never heard anything quite like it. 'W' where 'r' would normally be, which made the word juror
In the midst of checking proofs, I had a week filled with Chinese art outings: a visit to a new exhibit at the Smith College Art Museum and then a tour of the Chinese collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, both with Joan Lebold Cohen, who has done so much
I came across this site, OwnIt.org, in reading about John Howkins, the author of "Creative Economy" in the Encyclopedia of China. OwnIt offers "free intellectual property advice for creative businesses." Really useful, and a bit of a surprise to me as many of my creative economy friends are (still) hooked into the "information wants to be
