Cool commentary on a cool footnote. I've been a hardcore Caroline Polachek fan since lockdown days (she was definitely on my 2021 Spotify Wrapped). Never heard of James till I saw the reference in your Bao Shichen article but immediately wondered if he was any relation and flagged the question for further research. And now you've done the research. Thank you!
You are welcome. My pleasure! I hope to continue to perform more cross-platform service linking Chinese history, soybeans, and indie pop in the future. Also: good to hear from you Julian!
that's what the previous post "We Are All Daoguang Now" is more or less about, although I can't say I know for sure.. I think Yong Xue makes a convincing case in his paper on the topic, and Rowe also points out quite a few points where Bao's numbers seem not to be too grounded in reality, so I'm prepared to believe he could be guilty!
Jim Polachek actually left academia a good while before The Inner Opium War was published. It stood as a monumental dissertation known to all in his field until, if memory serves, Susan Naquin gave Jim the multiple nudges he needed and shepherded the dissertation through revision and publication as a book. Meanwhile, I only came to know about Caroline Polachek this past weekend when a good friend on Cape Cod who had been classmates with Jim as undergraduates at Harvard told me about her. I guess I had missed the NYer article, and my finger is not exactly on the pulse when it comes to popular music.
Cool commentary on a cool footnote. I've been a hardcore Caroline Polachek fan since lockdown days (she was definitely on my 2021 Spotify Wrapped). Never heard of James till I saw the reference in your Bao Shichen article but immediately wondered if he was any relation and flagged the question for further research. And now you've done the research. Thank you!
You are welcome. My pleasure! I hope to continue to perform more cross-platform service linking Chinese history, soybeans, and indie pop in the future. Also: good to hear from you Julian!
But inquiring minds want to know: DID Bao Shichen exaggerate the capacity of seagoing junks?
that's what the previous post "We Are All Daoguang Now" is more or less about, although I can't say I know for sure.. I think Yong Xue makes a convincing case in his paper on the topic, and Rowe also points out quite a few points where Bao's numbers seem not to be too grounded in reality, so I'm prepared to believe he could be guilty!
Jim Polachek actually left academia a good while before The Inner Opium War was published. It stood as a monumental dissertation known to all in his field until, if memory serves, Susan Naquin gave Jim the multiple nudges he needed and shepherded the dissertation through revision and publication as a book. Meanwhile, I only came to know about Caroline Polachek this past weekend when a good friend on Cape Cod who had been classmates with Jim as undergraduates at Harvard told me about her. I guess I had missed the NYer article, and my finger is not exactly on the pulse when it comes to popular music.
Ah thanks for the clarification! yeah, i also read the section of his dissertation specifically on the gao-jia dike collapse. amazing scholarship.
Good heavens. What wonderful connections.
right???? crazy!