now hes talking about late 18C chinese elite overproduction no citation of turchin smdh
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author is giving an overview of chinas opium culture and so far hes inadvertently making a really good case against chinas ban on opium and against western culpability in any way regardless not sure whether this is deliberate
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ok so basically the chinese banned western women from canton, and then the local director of the EIC brought his wife in and paraded her around in public everyone groaned they asked him to please for the love of god send her back to macau he threatened to land troops
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the EIC director eventually backed down but wrote back to England asking parliament to launch an invasion to avenge this slight to their credit parliament laughed his request out of its halls but still good god CALM DOWN DUDE
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hello bmo what is your all time favorite season of anime
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ughh impossible maybe a monogatari season but they all blended together possibly atla season 2
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