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the lucky seventy
China’s imperial tradition. It’s hard to throw two thousand plus years of history under the bus. Even Mao Zedong once confided to Edgar Snow that it was difficult for the Chinese to ” overcome the habits of 3,000 years of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boxer Rebellion China, Chin Shih Huang Ti, China Imperial tradition, Clare Boothe, Dowager Empress, Dr. Joseph Needham, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Edgar Snow, Emperor Kuang-Hsu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Ming Dynasty, Ming Tombs Dam, Peng Chen and Mao Zedong Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven Beijing
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mainland holiday: that’s sansha not sencha
It’s a seemingly small event, but Mao Zedong’s long march also began with a few small steps. The jewel, the prize, the coveted article for China is Taiwan. It’s doubtful they would play for the Philipines, but South Korea and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashar Al Assad, China Aircraft Carrier, China City of Sansha, China Confucious Institutes, China DF-21D ballistic missile, China Over the Horizon radar ( OTH), China Paracel Islands, China Spratly Islands, China strategy South China Sea, China Syria support U.N., Edgar Snow, Joseph S. Nye, Lord Killanin IOC, Luo Baoyou China, Mao Zedong Long March, Proctor and Gamble China, Robert O. Keohane, Ruan Zongze, Sino-American relations, Song Zhong COC, Sun Shaochi China, The Future of Power book
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mulberry children in the middle kingdom
The Chinese Communists are not prevented, in the popular view, from inheriting the imperial mantle merely because they lack blue blood. That most rational of sages, Confucius, established 2,500 years ago that nobility depends not on birth or wealth but … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna May Wong, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Chuang-tzu Chinese philosopher, Edgar Snow, Jian Ping, Josef von Sternberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Marlene Dietrich, Paris Commune 1871, rod stewart, Shanghai Express film, Sun Yat-sen, Susan Cooper Morgan, Travis Banton, Wen Jiabao
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little red books: messianic with the lord of chin
The emperors’ mandate was to rule “all under Heaven,” which meant not only China but the surrounding barbarian areas that still awaited the civilizing influence of China. After all, the Chinese name for China means “Middle Kingdom” and embodies the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, China magazine Red Flag, China Three Constantly Read Articles, China Three Old Articles, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, Jiang Jiehong, John Zorn, John Zorn Shanghai, Jonathan Cape, Lan Ping Blue Duckweed, Lan Ping Mao Zedong wife, Li Li-san early communist leader, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong personality cult, Mao's son An-lung, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Hai-jung, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Side
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sinic-thesia: all quarters of the globe revolve
The ordinary man was conditioned to want edicts- even if they merely told him, as so many of Mao Zedong’s sayings did, to think for yourself, question authority, and weigh carefully the pros and cons of an action before embarking … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol mao Zedong series, Chien Lung, Chien Lung decrees to George III, Chin Ping, Ching Ping, Dennis Bloodworth, Dennis Hopper, Dennis Hopper Mao Zedong, Edgar Snow, European Marxism, Han Kaotsu, Han Kaotsu first Han emperor, Long March to Yenan, Long March to Yenan 1934, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong personality cult, Oliver Stone Nixon, Richard Nixon China, Richard Nixon Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-sen
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china’s enduring imperial traditions
Reports of its death, though it has taken a few on the chin, are always exaggerated. As Mao once said, there is a several thousand year tradition of emperor worship, to deeply embedded to be disregarded, as distasteful as some … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew J. Nathan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci The Last Emperor, Chiang Kai-shek, China Imperial tradition, dowager empress china, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, eleanor roosevelt, Hubert Vos painter, Jeremy Thomson, Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Robert Capa, Thirteen Emperors Scroll, Yan Liben
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Imperial traditions:mandates of heaven in 5 year plans…
China’s Imperial tradition? Certainly, under Mao it was severely tested and ended up nearly shattered, at least superficially, but tradition goes back a long way in China and reports of its death have almost always greatly been exaggerated. Chairman Mao … Continue reading
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Tagged Chang-an old capital, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, Empress Dowager, Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis, Mao Zedong, Pu Yi last emperor of China, Sun Yat-sen, Thirteen Emperors Scroll, Tu Fu Chinese poet Tang Dynasty, Wang Jingxian, Yan Li-pen artist
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