Media today:

• Octopus Dreaming: watch an octopus change color as it sleeps.
• Wang Huning: Xi Jinping's Reluctant Propagandist
• 陈丹青：文学与读书 ("Danqing Chen: Literature and Reading")
• Articles from the blog Scholar's Stage:
  • Public Opinion in Authoritarian States
  • Reflections on China's Stalinist Heritage, Part 1
  • China Does Not Want Your Rules-Based Order
  • Xi Jinping Explains His Political Philosophy
  • Whence Springs a Strategic Canon?
  • What to Read to Get Into Chinese History