2. On China
I don’t know as much about China as I have found out about Europe. But I am willing to find out with further contacts.
With our overview of Ancient and Medieval European and Asian history, we can develop a better understanding of the Western Heritage, and see if we can recognize themes from the past that (dis)color our current western outlook.
Main Index; Self-As-Method – a book-long interview with Xiang Biao
I apologize for the 10-day delay in posting. But preparing this book was so impactful that it inspired the launch of another project that some of us had been talking about last month, (and thinking about for years). We now have a model for that “Discussion Community”. I will introduce this new project first, and then below I will outline our December…
Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China:
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/12/01/farmers-mao-and-discontent-in-china/ Topics: Ecology Places: Asia China Dongping Han is professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. His publications include several journal articles and his book
The monolithic western stereo-types about Mao and the cultural revolution
Munir Ghazanfar Lahore School of Economics https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326571861_Dongping_Han_2008_The_Unknown_Cultural_Revolution_Life_and_Change_in_a_Chinese_Village_New_York_Monthly_Review_Press_Reviewed_by_Munir_GhazanfarThanks for reading Librarian’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
A. The Three Kingdoms of China
condensed version/ L. N. Gumilev - MTF, 1968. This is a short story, but very complicated with about 35 years of constant mobilizations and opposing armies moving in every direction. There were many defeats and victories, and all going back and forth such that it is like to impossible to follow the details, place names and which general won or died. On…
