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Jin Guantao and the Authentic Mind Jin Guantao, “The Mentality of Many People Today Marks a Return to the 19th Century” [1]   Introduction and Translation by David Ownby   Introduction   Jin Guantao (b. 1947) is without a...

I just finished reading a stellar essay by Guantao Jin and Qingfeng Liu, titled: "From 'republicanism 'to 'democracy': China's selective adoption and reconstruction of modern Western political concepts (1840-1924)."

Then I found this:
www.readingthechinadream.com/jin-guantao-...

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Wonderful! Thank you~~~

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Two Thousand Years of Chinese History Were Directed and Starred by Ruffians Yi Zhongtian (易中天)

Two Thousand Years of Chinese History Were Directed and Starred by Ruffians by Yi Zhongtian (易中天)

ctexp.substack.com/p/two-thousa...

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This is very similar to my PhD topic and I am super excited to read it.

Thanks for your hard work!!!

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Still no blue sky
The "volunteers"
The word "fascism"
Small number of WWII allies
Modi
Xi's hair is more and more grey
Nobody younger than Xi can be found
Panda politics are over
No one in the global south looking to China for leadership
All the wrong kind of attention in Western media

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Zhang Xuecheng went further, arguing that, “Lying between heaven and earth, all writings are the study of history (shixue). The Six Classics are merely the work of the Sage [Confucius] selecting six kinds of history and presenting them as moral teachings. (via Shimada Keji)

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More from Zhang Binglin (1908):

“for the independence of a national group (minzu), an initial study of its national essence (guicui) was essential. In national essence, history was the primary thing. Next to historical research, all the other scholarly disciplines were merely ordinary skills.”

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Chinese Text Project The world's largest digital library of pre-modern Chinese: an open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attemp...

子曰：「鳳鳥不至，河不出圖，吾已矣夫！」

Originally found in the Analects of Confucius. Also found in Zhang Binglin's 1903 Prison Essay, which goes on to say: "Others will follow me to renew the golden flame."

(via Shimada Kenji, 1990 and ctext.org)

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"This family is doomed! We will see it rot, bit by bit."

Ba Jin, Family.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk56...

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Now that classes are over for the summer I am greatly looking forward to reading this.

历史的先声

minjian-danganguan.org/s/china-unof...

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民主之澜——伟大的和平爱国革命家，张澜 - YouTube

This is a drama about the life of Zhang Lan 张澜. Called "The Democracy of Lan."

Zhang Lan was one of the core leaders of the Chinese Democratic League during the Chinese Civil War, and one of the major characters in my research.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#茶馆

One of my favorite Chinese films.

Based on the play by Lao She.

youtu.be/7lEzLUH7_Bw?...

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If you have suggestions, let me know.

In a few years my book might just be in this circle.

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#SummerReading #ChineseHistory #ModernChina #Democracy #GlobalIntellectualHistory

Here are some of my favorite books for the summer.

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