Reading about Yiyun Li earlier, I came across her experiences during the year of military training which first year Peking University students were subjected to after 1989. Interesting story.
I had to subscribe to Prospect to get to read the piece – twelve pounds for a years web-only access, which I thought was a bargain. Assuming I read it. But to get my money’s worth for today at least I stuck around and read a few more pieces. The links below may be to subscription-only links I’m afraid.
A round table discussion on avoiding financial hiccups like the one we’re currently experiencing was interesting. I’ve been trying to be more informed on economics lately, and this certainly reduced my levels of ignorance. Linking executive pay to company performance over a five or ten year timescale and including clawback clauses in contracts were new. Article on George Osbourne was also interesting. The Tory party is undergoing quite the rejuvenation at the moment and while I’m no conservative, capital-C or otherwise, Britain’s (or maybe just England and Wales) has been lacking an effective opposition for too long.
A lot of the translation work I do is on environmental issues, so the interview with Nick Stern, author of the review on the economics of climate change which had an impact back in 2006, rang plenty of bells. I’ve done translations on the kind of mechanisms he talks about, and there’s one in my in-tray which I think will cover the same topics.
