his really good book was from 2012, this one was 2018 theres more social justice tint to this one, it was nearly absent in the earlier book
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i do hate the reader he has a contemptuously pompous delivery
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he keeps trying to impress me with how big and cool china was compared to europe and i resent that siding with the english ambassador who was spurned after very hard to be polite and spent his return trip musing about how a couple of british ships of the line could end china
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"hahaha stupid english couldnt speak chinese" yes the emperor had the last guy who tried to teach an englishman chinese beheaded and spread word of this jesus christ
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english ambassador memoirs: "china is actually not as strong as everyone thinks, the han majority hates the manchurian aristocracy, the government is ripe for revolution" author: "he was just mad" next chapter: "the chinese government was broke and badly run"
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now hes talking about late 18C chinese elite overproduction no citation of turchin smdh
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oh and here we have a ming revanchist series of millenarian rebellions. starting in hubei, lol. hmmmm english ambassador looking pretty good right now also the emperor is senile and ruled by a breathtakingly corrupt chamberlain what a country!
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a good read about the Taiping Rebellion. The last four years of which coincided with the US Civil War. Which is crazy to think about. US deaths <1M. Taiping deaths were 20-30 million.
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AitHK is /extremely/ good, have it and enjoyed it immensely
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I think just due to media attention and technology imbalance people mentally kind of put the Taiping Rebellion into some category of “ancient” like the Three Kingdoms era. Whereas we have photographs from the US Civil War.
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it's absolutely bananas to me the Taiping was absolutely wild, profoundly interesting, everyone should know about it also the largest war in the 19C I mean come ON
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