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this is amazing – Chinese civil service examination cells in Guangdong, 1873 – 7500 of them! into which aspiring scholars are locked for between 24 to 72 hours to take their imperial examinations! like a harvest field of brains
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Secret documents uncovered by lawyers acting for the families of the victims of the Batang Kali massacres in Malaysia in 1948 by a platoon of Scots Guards may provoke a new governmental inquiry. One set of papers reveals that the British authorities had considered a proposal for introducing a deliberate policy of mass executions to deter Chinese civilians from aiding Communist insurgents.
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Short film vignettes of 1960's Singapore. The montage ends with an old Chinese woman standing on a little island in the middle of an uncaring stream of traffic. According to the filmmaker Michael Rogge, she came to that area to curse the building from which her son fell to his death, for years on end. Her face — such bitterness.
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I am so excited about this book, just out from Yale University Press, but SO eagerly awaited since I first heard about it last year. James Scott has spent his whole life writing ever more nuanced appraisals of the possibilities of state resistance. Here he posits Zomia, a continuous region located 300m above sea level — the altitude beyond which, according to him, states tend to fail.
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