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Maude Nificent

@SeaFury

what a marvellous find!

is she saying “deity”? (i struggle without transcripts)

and when she mentions gold is she talking about the gold rush of 1850s? I’ve heard there were Chinese (or Asians) mining tin in Tasmania long before the victorian gold rushes. (or as i sometimes need to point out to people, before my yt family arrived in 1840s — so asking anyone “where they are from” really is an ignorant thing to do for more reasons than they think)

#StrayanHistory#ChineseHistory
villainous friend

Enjoying this episode of the Beyond Huaxia podcast, on the Imperial Exam System: beyondhuaxia.podbean.com/e/epi

This excerpt, on the career prospects of men who failed the exams, makes me feel vindicated for making Chen Chou an accountant in my #ALeagueOfNobleman post-canon fic! He doesn’t have to worry about his ‘patron’ dropping him because Zhang Ping would never. <3

I hope one day DFGG finishes the novel and we can find out what they both really end up doing!

#podcast#ChineseHistory#ZhangGongan
Dr. Tineke D'Haeseleer

And so we see how history is forgotten... 36 years since the events known in the West as "Tian'anmen" took place. A little over one generation, and there is barely any mention of it.

Listen to this podcast from last year (I think this year's edition may be coming yet, Chris is in a later timezone) to rembember: thehistoryofchina.wordpress.co
#tiananmen #ChineseHistory #DemocracyDiesInDarkness

The History of China · Special – Tiananmen Square: The Declassified History – 06/01/1999 w/ postscript 2024The History of China · Special – Tiananmen Square: The Declassified History – 06/01/1999 w/ postscript 2024 Doc 1: Cable, From: U.S. Embassy Beijing, To: Department of State, Wash DC, A…
~meoralis~
#FotoVorschlag: Näher dran geht's nicht // Can't get any closer

Näher dran an die #TerrakottaArmee kommt man nicht und sieht so die unglaublichen Details - jeder #Krieger ist einzigartig, bis hin zu den Schuhsohlen! Auch wenn die Farben mittlerweile kaum noch zu sehen sind, hat mich das sehr beeindruckt. Es zeigt aber auch, dass auch damals schon größenwahnsinnige Spinner an der Macht waren 🙄 // You can't get any closer to the #TerracottaArmy than this and marvel at the wonderful details - each #warrior is unique, down to the soles of his shoes! The colours are mostly faded now but still, I was deeply impressed. It also shows that megalomaniac leaders aren't a recent development. 🙄

#history #Geschichte #ChineseHistory #chinesischeGeschichte #TerrakottaSoldaten #TerrakottaKrieger #TerracottaSoldiers #TerracottaWarriors #Terrakotta #terracotta #China #Xian #Archäologie #archaeology
#archaeology
Daniel Carkner🥀

Written by a friend from Vancouver

"This post offers a detailed, firsthand account of how a community worked with its national archives to open racist government records needed to understand and confront this history. It shows how a community’s agency, self-determination, and right to remember its past can move an institution to action."
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/03/

Active History · The right to remember the past: Opening Chinese immigration records in Canada’s national archives“C.I.30 certificate of Dere Mee Gim.” The Paper Trail collection, UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Courtesy of the Dar Woon Family.…
#archives#ChineseHistory#CanadianHistory
Women From History BOT
~ The legend of Mulan part III ~

The poem begins with Mulan sitting at her loom, weaving and sighing, and when asked who she is in love with that is causing such sighs, she explains that she has seen the summons from the government, how the Khan is mobilizing the troops, and how her father's name is on the list of conscripts. Her younger brother is only a baby and her father is too old to serve and so she tells her family that she will take his place as she is already well versed in martial arts, horsemanship, and archery. No one objects and so she buys a horse and equipment and goes off to war.

She serves with distinction and is offered the honor of an important governmental position but refuses it. She returns home with her fellow soldiers, goes indoors, and changes back into feminine attire. When she comes back out, her comrades say, “We marched together for these twelve long years/And absolutely had no clue that Mulan was a girl!”. The poem ends with the narrator comparing people to hares and how, when they run side by side, no one can tell male from female, and so it is with people as well.

The later Song of Mulan from the Tang Dynasty changes the locale to Tang-era China and focuses on the danger to the state posed by recent rebellions such as the An Lushan (766-779 CE). The story is the same but there is greater emphasis laid on service to the state through the Confucian ideal of filial piety. The original motivation for Mulan's service is still to save her father but salvation of the family member is equated with defense of the country. This, of course, is in keeping with Confucian ideals in that a virtuous family, theoretically, will help produce a virtuous community and, by extension, a nation.

#mulan #chinesehistory #art #arthistory #history #painting #womenfromhistory
#womenfromhistory
Women From History BOT
~ The legend of Mulan part I ~

Mulan is a legendary character in Chinese literature who is best known in the modern day from the Disney adaptation. Her story, however, about a young girl who takes her father's place in the army to help save her country, is hundreds of years old

The tale most likely originated in the Northern Wei Period (386-535 CE) of China before it was developed by succeeding authors. Scholarly consensus is that Mulan is a fictional character, probably developed in Northern China in response to the greater independence women enjoyed there, whose legend was then revised in succeeding eras.

The original work, The Poem of Mulan, dates to the 6th century CE and reflects the influences of Mongolian-Turkic peoples on the region with a focus on filial piety, the central virtue and moral of the tale. The later Song of Mulan (from the Tang Dynasty, 618-907 CE) retains this theme while changing the time period. The legend was later included in a compilation by one Guo Maoqian of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE), which provided other writers with the source material for their versions.

The play The Female Mulan (16th century CE) modifies earlier themes, moves the action back to the time of the Northern Wei, and introduces the happy ending of the marriage motif while succeeding versions conclude with Mulan killing herself to avoid the shame of having to become the emperor's concubine. By the time the character reached the modern era, through the film Mulan Joins the Army (1939), she was a staunch nationalist, driving out foreign invaders.

Since the 1998 Disney animated film, Mulan's story has grown in popularity and drawn attention to the other women, all historically attested, who took up arms for a cause they believed in throughout China's history.

#mulan #chinesehistory #art #arthistory #history #painting #womenfromhistory
#womenfromhistory
Ms. Que Banh

"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."

"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.

Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."

"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:

潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]

#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.

Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."

Ref: inf.news/en/history/08fbe53052

Ref: theteochewstore.org/blogs/late

#AsianMastodon#China#Gaginang
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