Editor’s note for Monday, December 21, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.

My thoughts today:
Sad news: Ezra Vogel, renowned scholar and much-loved teacher of things Chinese and Japanese, died yesterday at the age of 90. Here are three obituaries: in Nikkeiย and the Washington Post, and by his son Steven in Japan Times.
Our word of the dayย is the butterfly effectย (่ด่ถๆๅบ hรบdiรฉ xiร oyรฌng).
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief