jonathan d spence lets good "In Search of Modern China" read by a terrible british man just listen to the samplehttps://www.audible.com/pd/The-Search-for-Modern-China-Audiobook/B009AFTZ16 …
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the Ming apparently banned cities from getting close to as large as the capitol they didnt want competing centers of power fascinating
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the more i learn about chinese political history the more i come to believe that western and chinese traditions, modes, and civilizations are genuinely deeply different
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just thinking about what happens when you have a large and entrenched bureaucracy controlling a giant country for millenia
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yep and "you can write it with fewer strokes" made sense for a few decades and then, welp, everyone stopped writing by hand, everywere
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do you mean psychically hostile because words don't sound the way they look? if so the wade-giles system used before pinyin was much much worse
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Sinkiang -> Xinjiang lmao
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plausible it wouldn't be the first timehttps://twitter.com/temujin9/status/1308449257553305601 …
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我不懂了。 Wõ bù dõng le. Ā Á Ã À
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Because Pinyin was not designed for English speakers. It was designed to replace the old radical-based Bopomofo system that pupils used to learn proper pronunciation and also transliterate Chinese names into a script that can be read by non-Chinese/Japanese speakers.
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