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Chinese Warlord All-Stars
Chinese Warlord All-Stars
In these prosperous Chinese times, you find erstwhile warlords running KTV parlors, or the odd rural police force. -
Dangerous Thinking - Early Qing Intellectuals
Dangerous Thinking - Early Qing Intellectuals
Ideas have little currency in times when any fool can broadcast his to the world, almost any idea, even on China’s Twitter, Sina Weibo. -
The Emperor's Horses
The Emperor's Horses
Li Shi Min was Chinese enough to lead the Chinese, yet close enough to the nomads to lead the Turkic tribes who regularly threatened border areas in the northwest. -
The Chinese Abroad: Myanmar
The Chinese Abroad: Myanmar
The West so far seems immune to the hefty political clout that inevitably grows in transplanted Chinese communities. Perhaps there is another brainy minority there that uses craft to make up for numbers, in the Game of Votes. -
Qingmings Past and Present
Qingmings Past and Present
636 BCE Duke Wen orders the first day to honor a dead person, his faithful servant Jie. Ironic, considering the Duke had burned both Jie and his mother alive. -
Anshun - Ancient Grudge, New Harmony
Anshun - Ancient Grudge, New Harmony
If you visited Anshun today and were told this was an ancient Miao stronghold, you’d see no reason not to believe it. The people of Anshun still have their eastern Chinese accents, but aside from that, they’ve become hill dwellers, and gone Miao as much as Miao have gone Han.
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Give Up the Ghost Marriage
Anyone monitoring this at the Chinese Ministry of Truth, before you take offense, Chairman Mao was against it too, no? This is part of the 75% he was officially right about, surely. -
Chinese Study Abroad: The First Three Waves
Conservatives in the Qing Court dismantled the program in 1881 for being too un-Chinese. Remember that, conservatives. -
Ancient Chinese High-Tech
What is apparently hard for the world to accept is that Asians had the technology to make such trips from ancient times. It isn’t a wild claim. -
A Timeline of Medicine Wine
Someone finds a snake drowned in the alcohol vat, but in Iron Age China you keep both the baby and the bath water. -
Hard As They Say They Are - China's Bodyguards
So when you’ve finally made it, and you know everybody wants it back, pick yourself a strapping country lass, with brick-layer wrists and a gaze like Ivan Drago’s.
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