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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

ESWN on Tsao Chip on Sontag

The beginning of a nerd feud: ESWN calls Tsao Chip out on his op-ed piece on Susan Sontag. ESWN accuses Tsao cherry-picks one or two lines out of Sontag's works and condemns the whole category of Tsao's so called "American leftist intellectuals," and gratingly, got "paid very well for doing that."  And what's even worse, the op-ed is "factually challenged"--Tsao says Sontag never visited China.

Sontag, of course, visited China, more than once.  And she herself was in all likelihood "Made in China."  Her parents lived and made a living in Tianjin, China; she was probably conceived in China and only later born in New York.  Her biological father died in China and the name Sontag was taken from her stepfather.

Tsao fail.

Barber Shop in Chinatown

 Nowadays I loathe to have my haircut, that's why I seldom have mine cut, maybe once or twice a year. I went back to Chinatown. I could ...