@marcolazzarotti
Padre, Marito, Antropologo. Come quando ero piccolo,continuo ad innamorarmi di tutto. Anthropology of China, Taiwan, Greater China, Chinese Religions. 仁者人也 Visit my webpage: https://marcolazzarotti.altervista.org/
China's consulate in Strasbourg pressured a French theater and city officials to cancel a Taiwanese play that simulates the opening of a Taiwanese embassy. The theater didn't budge. Read the latest from Lingua Sinica: linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-play-c...
In 1981, photographer Liu Xiangcheng captured Pu Jie, younger brother of the last Qing emperor Puyi, sitting in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City.
Born inside that palace once filled with thousands of courtiers, he now returns as an ordinary visitor.
History can be ironic.
Whenever someone starts talking about the 'free market,' it's a good idea to look around for the many with the gun. He's never far away."
From David Graeber's Utopia Of Rules.
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3/4 - Song from the year you were born
Don McLean - American Pie
youtu.be/D5YfuN0AM4k
One of the things I like writing about is how it is not inevitable, but highly contingent, that Taiwan is "Chinese" instead of something else.
Like Spanish, or Japanese.
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Current mood ...
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - Live At Finsbury Park, London / 2010
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88l...
1884 German survey map of Formosa
Prof Steve Keen on the importance of producing food locally.
By Giovannino Guareschi, the "father" of Don Camillo and Peppone
And the secret will lie in the fact that, by exploiting an approximate, elusive, and pleasingly ‘sonorous’ vocabulary, he will be able to speak for an hour without saying anything. This would be impossible with Latin."
When the era of demagogues and charlatans begins, a language like Latin will no longer be useful, and any boor will be able to give a public speech with impunity and speak in such a way that he will not be kicked off the podium.
Latin is a precise, essential language. It will be abandoned not because it is inadequate for the new demands of progress, but because new men will no longer be suited to it.
Wonder if other cities will take up such programs if this works out—could relieve some of the burden on parents
focustaiwan.tw/society/2026...
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A fun one. Wrote on pirates and the first island chain. The title wasn't mine. Going to do something with Shi Lang and the Zhengs soon, I think.
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My latest, on Kafka in China (cameos by Yu Hua, Xue Yiwei, Kundera, Murakami & others, including an extended one by Orwell) engelsbergideas.com/essays/kafka... cc @parisreview.bsky.social
#TaxtheRich Tell State Leaders: Tax the Rich
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Happy 59th Birthday, Kurt...
Far Side
Always here with me.
Keong Hee Huat Chai (Hokkien equivalent!)
And Happy New Year of the Horse from Hong Kong to those who celebrate!*
(With apologies to the Japanese, whose New Year of the Horse began on January 1st!)
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Feb 13 A song with complex production
Public Enemy "Fight The Power" contained 23 samples to construct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...
Samples: www.whosampled.com/Public-Enemy...
