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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hmmm does china have *any* history of limited government? i wonder if this is a defining feature of modernity, somehow? hmmmmmmm
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
When reading Chinese history one of my heuristics is: "if it's related to bureaucracy at all, my ancestors fucked with that more than a thousand years ago in some way"
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its extremely impressive salute o7
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