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In the lead-up to U.S. President Trump’s meeting later this week with China’s Xi Jinping, Orville Schell, ChinaFile’s publisher, wrote an essay in The Wall Street Journal on the history of China’s episodic embrace of democratic principles and why in the long run he feels they are likely to persist despite an authoritarian retrenchment under Xi’s leadership. Anders Corr, a
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Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting.