Nanchang, the last location featured in the article, was the first one we visited and still one of my favorites

Really, for this purpose, it's safer to just count the Southern Song.

But when making claims about China's inherent peacefulness and lack of foreign aggression (in contrast to evil Japanese/Europeans), then only Han-ruled dynasties count as Chinese. But not the Qin or Han or Tang because they were so long ago. What Ming conquest of northern Vietnam? Never heard of it

That said, I haven't read the novel as a parent so who knows how badly that would go

True in an objective sense (death count), but I react worse to films

The equal field system - Communism!

For those who know the backstory, it would be more amusing to say that it's an oath to a British king named Charles, but I maintain that I am not swearing an oath to a British king, but to a king of Canada and that this distinction is both real and important

To be fair, a writing-intensive class with 225 students has always been impossible to teach well, unless you have multiple TAs and immense confidence in their teaching abilities (hard when they're often grad students teaching for the first time ever)

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

Would have to limit yourself to a pretty narrow range of hotels too

Congrats Hannah!

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.