Reply #65: I just helped my boss land a contract, by doing a report on China ...

[Lisa]

... and the socio-environmental issues it will be confronting this century.

If I hadn't trained as a geographer and been exposed to these topics already (and I don't know many geography profs who don't mention China and the Chinese diaspora in their courses at least once a year -- even the physical geographers and hydrologists talk about topics like the Three Gorges Dam and the unique tower karst formations) ... I would never have been able to complete that paper, given that I had less than a week to pull it together.

I had just ordered a DVD copy of the new "China Rises" series as a donation for our public library ... maybe I ought to get another one as a present for my fellow geographer in Colorado. If Mr. Hamelin shows excerpts in class, they can't accuse him of not having curriculum relevant to the flags!