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There is a helpful and basic introductory series called "History of Imperial China". I have not read their books on the Yuan & Ming or the Qing, but I liked what I saw in their book on the Tang. They're basic, topical, and makes for an easy overview.

In America, the "New Qing" school mostly dominates discussion of Qing Dynasty history. China tends to view the Manchu Qing (and the Mongol Yuan) as part of a multicultural "China" state that has existed since time immemorial. "New Qing" disputes that by essentially arguing that the Manchu only considered "China" as one part of their empire, and thus ruled over Buddhist theocratic Tibet, Buddhist nomadic Mongolia, and Muslim Xinjiang (among others) differently from how it administered core China. This obviously ruffles feathers in China, since this ethnic-focused historiography seems to be trying to start something, but both sides of the ocean can probably agree that it at least provides a way of looking at things, including at ethnic relationships in Qing China. For New Qing, China Marches West is perhaps the most salient right now. You can also look at The Manchus (and look at The Tibetans in the same series while you're at it, since Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetans played important roles in the Ming, Qing, and modern China). Mark Eliot also is a prominent "New Qing" professor, and this seems to be his hallmark book, The Manchu Way.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Neo-Confucianism ideology solidified and became the guiding philosophy of East Asia. For a primary source peek at this philosophy, this translation of Wang Yangming seems a decent start.

The Forbidden City is the crowning achievement of Chinese palatial architecture, a culmination of imperial wisdom transmitted across thousands of years. No less, this book is a great, short introductory resource that is visually pleasing. I don't think it's a direct translation of the author's authoritative Chinese works, but he is the foremost expert on the architecture of the Forbidden City, and Nancy Steinhardt is an excellent authority on traditional Chinese architecture.

See if you can't find this book, The Class of 1761, in a library, going through the minutiae of the Chinese imperial examination system. I plan to look at this as well.

Chinese literature and opera came into maturity during the Ming and Qing Dynasty. So if you're feeling for long reads, read any of the Four Classic Novels of China. In particular, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, while not covering Ming or Qing (written in late Yuan/early Ming) will let you interface with literally any East Asian since they will know all the anecdotes and the Dream of the Red Chamber is noted for its extreme depth (entire departments devoted to studying it) and particular insight into mid-Qing society.

For opera, probably the Peony Pavilion is good enough, as a classic of Kunqu opera, the OG Chinese opera.

And honestly, just go to chinaknowledge.de ... It's a very comprehensive website surprisingly enough.

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Just like the famous red braised pork belly in mainland China, lu rou fan (卤肉饭/滷肉饭, braised pork belly with rice) is one of the most popular comfort foods in Taiwan. There’s another variation that uses ground pork instead of pork belly.

Braised pork belly over rice is an iconic Taiwanese comfort food. The pork is cooked in a sweet and savory sauce until the skin is melt in your mouth soft and unctuous, making the meat even more succulent and flavorful. This is one of our favorite dishes that we hope you'll love as much as we do!

Making lu rou fan in a clay pot or regular saucepan on the stove top can be tricky sometimes. Since it has to be slow cooked for at least 1 hour to make the pork belly tender and juicy, you need to keep an eye on the water level during cooking and stir occasionally so that it doesn’t dry out and the bottom is not burnt. I’ve made these mistakes before. Also if the cooking time is too short, the pork belly will be dry and hard.

Traditionally, you can add cooked eggs to the pot along with the pork and make soy eggs, but I don’t like the overcooked egg yolks. So I make the soy eggs separately using the tare sauce from this shoyu ramen recipe for marinating soft boiled eggs.

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North Korea is absolutely safe in this case, because like you said America values lives. And this has being the rationale behind China's minimal deterrence policy during the cold war. Because, during the game between the Soviet Union and the US, have nuclear weapon means it will be used as a easy game board for whatever political gains as the risks always outweigh the benefits. This is the game North Korea is playing now, basically North Korea is China during the cold war.

However, if the said country does pose a real threat, there is little qualms about taking the nuclear option, if there is little risk of return fire. See US plans to wipe the Soviet Union off the map in 1945, while the US has the nuclear advantage and the knowlege that the Soviets will soon have them too. US plans for first strike during the cuban missile crisis, while the US still the advantage of European and Turkish sites, while the Soviet haven't fully brought up the Cubans ones yet. And last the Herman Kahn's excellent book On Thermal War, where millions of lives lost is just statistic and can be calculated and sacrifice to pressed for an advantage.

Now the question is, what is China's position now. Does America see China on the same level as Soviet Union. Even worse, during the cold war, it quiet clears in the west (and in some circles inside the soviet union), long run the west will win. As long as the west contain soviet aggression and check soviet advances, then victory will be assured. This idea is vocalize most succinctly in the long telegram. In fact, the most dangerous time for nuclear exchange was in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union is clearly losing and the fear was the Soviets would go for it and hope a surprise a counterforce attack will prevail.

China, it seems that China is on the trajectory to to eclipse the US in the next two decade in terms of economical, comprehensive national power and even military power. And China is seeming to chart its own institution, national policy and governmental ideology that's different from the West and would not to controlled or guided by the west (this make it very different from Japan fear in the 1980s). So essentially, China no longer a north korea, but more like the United States, and the United State is a bit like the Soviet Union, with its leadership position erroting, the doubts emerge both about her exceptionalism as well as superiority of its ideology.

The United State currently have counterforce capabilities against China, while China only have limited countervalue capabilities. Additionally, the US is confident about it capability of tracking Chinese submarines. This means while a surprise first strike by the US will not only completely destroy China, it will also have a resonable chance of destroying most of China's nuclear arsenal as well. The US missile defense system could have catch the few missile missed by that first strike, leave the US mostly unscached (and in the views of a confident commander, completely unscached) in such an exchange and permanently stop a force that could not be stopped in the future. With other rational and moral leaders in power, this is very unlikely, even though RAND just recently published war plans with China. But with Trump in power, he might just wonna make it a reality.

With China archiving MAD, this places the possibility of a winnable nuclear war with China completely out of the windows, and would ensure the relative peace we all had since the end of WWII. And it is a policy that will not ending up saving Chinese lives, but American ones as well.

Not sure about scifi movies, but there's a book, The Three Body Problem that has won the Hugo award. The title refers to the famous three-body problem in physics, which is known for having no closed-form general solution. People around this sub generally agree that the original Chinese version is better than the translation, no surprise there; but many English readers I've asked say they still liked the translation. It also has 2 sequels, so it's a trilogy really. And they're coming out with a film adaptation next year.

More so on Newton's arrogance, that though Leibniz was extremely willing to share credit, Newton actually invested in efforts to slander Leibniz.

Otherwise, the "Bayesian style" is merely an axiomatic style to probability theory that aims to extend those notions of propositional logic as is expounded upon by E.T. Jaynes' "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science". However, an axiomatic style, or an approach to probability theory is just that, an approach. Thomas Bayes lacked much in developments of the theory that was not developed prior to him, whereas the great Laplace was able to demonstrate the true effectiveness of such an approach as described by E.T. Jaynes to a much larger audience and those after (e.g. Gauss etc.) due to the wide applications of such a style - essentially, Bayes was vanity, but the likes of Laplace demonstrated that such an approach to probability theory is not merely vanity. An analogous statement can be made regarding Booles (on "Boolean algebra") and Cantor, where Cantor's much more general considerations as applied to, for instance, the analysis of the foundation of real numbers (e.g. see Dedekind-Cantor axioms of the system of real numbers, equivalent formulations of the completeness property, and properties of the real numbers - i.e. Dedekind cut, Cantor set etc.) contrasts Boole's vanity.

>Regardless, it would be false to claim that the UK wasn't at the cutting edge of computer development at the time

No lol, to suggest that the UK was researching cutting edge computer development of the time is a false claim considering that those notions of computers weren't even rigorously conceived yet - concepts relating to programming for instance were extremely foundational and primitive. It is more realistic to attempt to stake in information theory - which is unrealistic due to the more comprehensive works on Shannon.

Developments in computing comes later as triggered by the likes of John von Neumann.

The fact that I grew up in the UK during my formative years helps - it means I can see through the UK's shallow bullshits very easily and quickly.

> Asian autocrats tend to respect rule of law more than historical European ones

Read this - https://www.amazon.com/Tying-Autocrats-Hands-Cambridge-Comparative/dp/1107071747.

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Under what conditions would authoritarian rulers be interested in the rule of law? What type of rule of law exists in authoritarian regimes? How do authoritarian rulers promote the rule of law without threatening their grip on power? Tying the Autocrat's Hands answers these questions by examining legal reforms in China. Yuhua Wang develops a demand-side theory arguing that authoritarian rulers will respect the rule of law when they need the cooperation of organized interest groups that control valuable and mobile assets but are not politically connected. He also defines the rule of law that exists in authoritarian regimes as a partial form of the rule of law, in which judicial fairness is respected in the commercial realm but not in the political realm. Tying the Autocrat's Hands demonstrates that the rule of law is better enforced in regions with a large number of foreign investors but less so in regions heavily invested in by Chinese investors.

Lol luckily for china they have the ccp, known human rights protectors and friends of all people, who will prevent barbarians from destroying their pristine civilization. I hope youre han at least.
There are good, VERY GOOD, reasons to not have unlimited immigration. And to say people are Nazis because they oppose it is fucked up.
But that's not the whole story here. The most vocal political parties and politicians, like Le Pen, have been avowed super rightists. These people have been scaremongering for decades so there is something else at play.

Theres a good amount of scholarship that describes how "anger and anxiety" are reactions of societal change not because of lefty meanies. People are freaking out that the world around them is not static. they are losing their supreme positions on political, racial, and economic hierarchies.

https://www.amazon.com/End-White-Christian-America/dp/1501122290/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1465624506&sr=8-8&keywords=religious+nationalism

Either you accept reality or you waste your life fighting the inevitable. Its an interconnected increasingly world and that wont reverse.

sorry for the grammar im on a touchscreen.

https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Political-System-Sebastian-Heilmann/dp/1442277343

Great book on Chinese political Science

English subbed episodes are available on Viki and Amazon. Youtube release is coming soon.

Raw (unsubbed) episodes can be found on maplestage and 8maple.

Enjoy!

It seems this is the English translation, it just took ages to be published. I do agree that his political stance is more than a bit concerning, but it still might be a worthwhile read.

really? seems to work fine for you guys

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/1250045061/

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Don't forget your latest adventure in the middle east.

Here's the book, feel free to get this "forbidden knowledge" for only 35 dollarydoos. https://www.amazon.com/Presstitutes-Embedded-Pay-CIA-Confession/dp/1615770178/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=presstitutes&qid=1573810601&sr=8-1

Why are these White pedophile protectors and exterminators of non-white people even allowed to speak?

 

Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

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The book is now translated to English by a small publisher and under a different title

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> The book is now translated to English by a small publisher and under a different title
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> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615770178/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1