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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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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