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Tag Archives: China Imperial tradition
the lucky seventy
China’s imperial tradition. It’s hard to throw two thousand plus years of history under the bus. Even Mao Zedong once confided to Edgar Snow that it was difficult for the Chinese to ” overcome the habits of 3,000 years of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Boxer Rebellion China, Chin Shih Huang Ti, China Imperial tradition, Clare Boothe, Dowager Empress, Dr. Joseph Needham, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Edgar Snow, Emperor Kuang-Hsu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Ming Dynasty, Ming Tombs Dam, Peng Chen and Mao Zedong Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven Beijing
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china’s enduring imperial traditions
Reports of its death, though it has taken a few on the chin, are always exaggerated. As Mao once said, there is a several thousand year tradition of emperor worship, to deeply embedded to be disregarded, as distasteful as some … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew J. Nathan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci The Last Emperor, Chiang Kai-shek, China Imperial tradition, dowager empress china, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, eleanor roosevelt, Hubert Vos painter, Jeremy Thomson, Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Robert Capa, Thirteen Emperors Scroll, Yan Liben
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