huh 20C american wars of conquest were really incredibly gentile the qing just killed e v e r y o n e who pissed them off
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china has a very long history of well-established scholastic culture and negligible broad liberty makes u think about the importance of education in liberation per se makes u Think
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huh russian-chinese border was rooooooughly fixed in 1689 after russians backed down from a conflict with the Qing fascinating
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Yongzheng Emperor's tax reforms are fascinating reading leading me to believe that there have been perhaps no greater tax dodgers in history than the landholders of china
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almost every pre-modern gov was in some sense limited in its role by tradition and precedent
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sure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_gao_huangdi_yuan … I even think for much of the history the Han didn't really interact much with govt, the southern region for example had (has?) really powerful clans.
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Yeah I think we vastly underestimate clan importance in Chinese history up till '70s reforms. Even in Cultural Revolution, for instance, much more violence was interclan rivalry than nominally Mao-backed Red Guards terrorizing people.
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"when the mountains are high, the emperor is far away. I am the emperor here"
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The Daoist tradition is skeptical of rulership -- Rothbard called Zhuangzi the first anarchist -- but it's submerged under the hierarchical cosmology.
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