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James Sino

James Sino

@SinoLityoutube

I run Sino Lit, which covers Chinese History. https://t.co/s7xxJKOVBX Castle Appreciator - with The Pendragon Foundation. https://t.co/6QV4jDWxw6

England Katılım Temmuz 2024
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
To maintain long-lasting order, two questions must be answered. 1. How to establish order? (a question of governance, defining who is in the in-group and who isn't and organisation) 2. Why maintain the order? (a question of ethics and morality) 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
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Pendragon Foundation
Pendragon Foundation@PendragonOrg·
The future of Britain's heritage is in peril Museums, universities and historic sites are all cutting back, with workforces drastically 'restructured' and places being closed To save our cultural legacy, we need new approaches to restoration That is our mission at Pendragon
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
Indeed. The takeover of the Ming by the Manchu Qing is a stark reminder of the costs of losing control of one's civilisation. I interviewed Dr Struve on this matter a few years ago, and the parallels to our times are too numerous to count youtu.be/CgLKN9POMFg?si…
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明末の混乱、秦末や後漢末など他のどの王朝とも雰囲気が異質で万暦帝の息子の肉で鍋パーティーする李自成とか、李自成を歓呼の声で迎える廷臣の声を聞きながら一人で首を吊る崇禎帝とか、蜀を死体の山にする張献忠とか、山海関から雪崩れ込む清軍とか他の時代で見たことない光景が続く。

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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
The Emperor and the Assassin (1998) draws on the rich record of Jing Ke's attempted assassination of Ying Zheng, the unifier-to-be. Unfortunately, the film, like many modern ones, fails to develop a story arc for the great men of history it wishes to smear.
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
Throughout Chinese history, political dissidents have employed allegory and historical analogy, referencing accepted historical events and even the weather, to critique the ruling elite. Usually, this was allowed. A direct critique of the Son of Heaven was not. Clarity.
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Wayward Son
Wayward Son@Wayward34339355·
I found a new history bro to follow
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
In the climax of Noddy Book 1: Noddy faces banishment from Toyland for "not being a toy." After Big Ears argues that he is one, the judge says: "Now, maybe he is a toy, but is he a good toy?" He only gets to stay when a local toy advocates for him being good. Underrated.
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@AcademicAgent_X Here's "Harvard Sinologist" Timothy Brook's utilizing all these methods. Once one notices it, it's impossible to trust any of them.
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@AcademicAgent_X It's both caused by and feeds into the constant undermining of Chinese history by "Western Sinologists". They use the same strategies they utilise against Western civilisation. 1. smearing. 2. deconstruction. 3. social construction, etc.
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Academic Agent@AcademicAgent_X·
Western paranoia about China is almost all projection based on what they would do in the same position not based on Chinese mindset, character or actual actions.
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@begynnynge At this point, putting aside sentiment, that dragon wins. It's already inside the walls. Unless some miracle occurs...
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@JrgenHuber7 @ScottBartB @kafkaswife That's only one example of the odd behaviours he engages in in that book. Here are some others: 1. self-reporting assistance of immigration fraud into the USA for the man known as Polat. 2Happening to stumble upon a local election. Hessler was in the Peace Corps (arm of US gov)
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Poppy Coburn
Poppy Coburn@kafkaswife·
Does anyone have any good recommendations for books on China / Chinese history?
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@JrgenHuber7 @ScottBartB @kafkaswife Do control yourself and refrain from throwing around words haphazardly like "puritan". It will lose its meaning if you do that. I used to think like you. I re-read it after 20 years and some much-needed life experience. The writing is good, no doubt, the actions less so.
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Jürgen Huber
Jürgen Huber@JrgenHuber7·
@SinoLityoutube @ScottBartB @kafkaswife You're a pure puritan, aren't you. That's why Peter Hessler is so outstanding, he gets his students to talk about their experiences with going to the big cities. These are no kids!
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@JrgenHuber7 @ScottBartB @kafkaswife let's say a teacher from the "Confucius Institute" (arm of PRC) engaged in those behaviours with a bunch of young female students in the USA, kept in contact with them long after they left school and read their diaries. We'd all agree that was inappropriate at best
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@ScottBartB @JrgenHuber7 @kafkaswife let's say a teacher from the "Confucius Institute" (arm of PRC) engaged in those behaviours with a bunch of young female students in the USA, kept in contact with them long after they left school and read their diaries. We'd all agree that was inappropriate at best
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@ScottBartB @JrgenHuber7 @kafkaswife nothing was winsinuated. It's all in plain sight, self-reported activity of what the writer did during the writing of the book. Make of it what you will. I tried to be charitable and say it was "inappropriate"
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@JrgenHuber7 @ScottBartB @kafkaswife That's only one example of the odd behaviour he engages in that book. Here are some others: 1. self-reporting assisting immigration fraud into the USA for the man known as Polat. 2. Happening to stumble upon a local election. Hessler was in the Peace Corps (arm of US government)
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xy@chroniclesXY·
@kafkaswife Peter Hessler's books! Henry Kissinger's On China is also very good.
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James Sino
James Sino@SinoLityoutube·
@ScottBartB @kafkaswife Hessler's Oracle Bones is a very odd book on a second read. Why does he have such close relationships with very young female students (reading their diaries and calling them, etc.)? Inappropriate at best. youtu.be/pBEUB2ya1Mw
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Barley Scott Blair
Barley Scott Blair@ScottBartB·
@kafkaswife Any book by Peter Hessler. American. Totally fluent. Lived there for almost two decades. He's very decent, pragmatic and a beautiful writer. Start with "Driving Country"
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