Maggie Greene

Professorial overlord

An intro from the professorial overlord (“overlord”)

Since I demanded all of you do a self-introduction, I thought it was only fair that I do my own – even though I babbled at you plenty at our introductory course meeting. I am a modern Chinese cultural historian: my primary work currently is on cultural reform and censorship in the People’s Republic of…

On (academically) writing about the “most literary of sports”

… Young people often ask, “How does one become a writer?” My answer is always simply: “By writing.” Writing is like experience: if you don’t experience things, then you won’t understand life; and if you don’t write, then you won’t know what you’re capable of creating. Yu Hua, China in Ten Words Mountaineering is often described…

Hello seminar!

Welcome to the digital home of HSTR 467, History of Mountaineering (Greater Ranges edition), a SP 2016 seminar at Montana State University. I’m still working out some kinks in the website, so please forgive any hiccups along the way. My hope is this will be a more useful platform than D2L for facilitating your writing…