I just ran across this article in Tablet magazine. Hardly can be considered part of the bibliography of To One Who Lives on the Mainland, but fascinating. So what is it -- Desperate grasping for international aid via the heartstrings of a distant people? A lucky coincidence in nomenclature, used ingeniously (or disingenuously)? Genuine underground/undiscovered history? Something I haven't thought of yet? How do you interpret what's going on here?
