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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
Between Entities and Identities: The Internet of Egregores
Hsuan-tsung(r. 712-756). T’ang-dynasty emperor and supporter of both Buddhism and Taoism during one of the golden ages of Chinese culture. Huai-shen(1077-1132), aka Tz’u-shou. Zen monk of the Yunmen sect. His commentary is quoted by Hung-lien. Huang-po(d. 850), aka Hsi-yun. Dharma heir of Pai-chang. His Zen talks were recorded by prime minister Pei
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
So long as the scholar-gentry aspired to bureaucratic advancement through the examination system, with its classical syllabus and Confucian ideology, and while China was governed from walled cities with an ultra-loyal Manchu army in reserve, rebellion was unlikely to spread far or last long. The early emperors also insisted upon frugal expenditure
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Zhang Binglin
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The relative rarity of protest on the periphery since zoos should not be mistaken for evidence of increasing satisfaction among Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other non-Hans; not even resignation."
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
Tanner Greerscholars-stage.org
Wang argues that, after the imperial unification, tianxia cosmology became subordinated to the imperial state (guo) and the earlier distinction between the Zhou imperial state and the realm of tianxia began to disappear.