The article I wrote about the Yuanmingyuan continues to conquer Asia — if that’s the right metaphor. A friend of mine took the independent initiative to send it on to a journal in Hong Kong, Century China, which published it last week (without footnotes and with their own subtitle). The article has had over 1500 hits in a few days and is already linked to by tens of blogs. A google search of this version of the article gives 377 hits!

Meanwhile, an authorised version, with footnotes and all — and in traditional Chinese ideographs — has appeared in Cultural Studies Monthly in Taiwan. This is the only version officially endorsed.

This success is a good reason to try to get a book out early rather than late, and in Chinese too as a matter of some urgency. I wouldn’t really need to publish anything in a relatively small language like English. Still, it seems Millennium, the IR journal, is interested in another version of the article. Great! This means I can incorporate the most recent research and some more stuff on transgression.

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