When history is meaningful
Bloggers are such an incestuous lot. Are we the only readers of what we write?("Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a recent gathering of U.K. politicians that the average blog has just one reader: the blogger.")
During the school year, this blog averages about 100 readers a day. The average is down to about 90 now, but today (Wednesday, 23 May), 150 people looked at the blog. Did someone give an assignment based on the blog?
A historian writes a blog from China called Jottings from the Granite Studio. Last week he mentioned that Dan Harris, who writes the China Law Blog, referred to an entry in the East-West Station blog written by a Brit teaching English in Dalian, China.
Now, I'm referring you to that "delightful -- and frightening -- story," The Three Taboo T's. (sic)
It's a reminder that the past is not always irrelevant to understanding in the present.
"...my part time job the contract states that we are not to bring up or (if brought up) talk about the three T’s of Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen with our students...
"Last summer, apparently, an English traveller on her year out (makes her 18/19) came knocking and was snapped up for a month’s duties..."
Labels: China, history, pedagogy
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:49 PM
1 Comments:
"the average blog has just one reader: the blogger."
I must be above average...My mother swears she never misses a post.
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