This upcoming January 1 (2019) will be the 80-year anniversary of the founding of China’s Xikang Province, which has long since disappeared from the map. This month I took a short break from academic writing and cobbled together a retrospective article on Xikang for SupChina:  https://supchina.com/2018/12/26/lost-province-chinas-xikang-now-tibet-and-sichuan-is-turning-80/.