Five great reads about the Qing Dynasty.
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You can build concessions, sell opium, and burn a few palaces and people might be pissed off about it, but there are few quicker ways to get a man to take action and do battle than to mess with his kids. 
Rush Limbaugh’s moronic comments about the LRA are hardly the first time somebody has been blinded by a lunatic leader’s professed “Christianity.” 
For those who have not yet reached their saturation point for 1911 centennial pontificating, be sure to check out this week’s Sinica podcast. |
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On Sun Yatsen, 1912, and Han Han
Trusting Yuan Shikai to nourish a fragile young republican government was basically akin to dousing a three-year old in A1 Sauce and putting him in the care of a rabid honey badger, but the demise of the first republican experiment might not have been as inevitable as some believe.