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Chiang loyalist Wu Zhongxin
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
General Zhang Zhizhong
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Inside Audrey Tang’s Plan to Align Technology with Democracy
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Wei-Wu
Ming rule represented a vehement reaction against what was seen by its original supporters as the corruption, oppression and overtaxation of the Mongol Yuan.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Ming diplomacy was intended to secure the external conditions for internal stability. From that point of view, the famous voyages dispatched by the emperor Yung-lo around the Indian Ocean under the admiral Cheng-ho were an aberration, prompted perhaps by fear of attack by Tamerlane and his successors.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Zhang Binglin