A key part to becoming a world power is developing a new crank theory that your people got to New Zealand before Maori did and simply disappeared

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Most of us grow out of the xiguan, it’s just too mafan

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(paying attention to various separate discourses from the rebels currently holding the southern capital) I think the Qing empire is a sex cult

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It’s terrifically overwritten, and although Backhouse had good Chinese, he also had the first-year expat’s habit of randomly seasoning his prose with unnecessary Mandarin. Sometimes illuminating and cool (eg when describing a gay brothel at Qianmen), but sometimes he’s “going wai-t’ou (outside)”

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Yes, and - there is very strong irony with Tang bemoaning “black box” election knowing that the system in HK is full of closed door elections (or nominations) where it matters. Those long pro-gov organisations like the Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Ltd? You’d be hard pressed to understand who

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