Message from @brett0007wastaken
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This was more of a function of Confucianist tradition then of "repression" by the Emperor
@Goodwood of Dank™ whats the difference *bah dum tish*
*Empress, if we're talking about the same time period
Kek.
Dowager Empress, but splitting hairs now
ow ok
I was confuse af
yeah no, definitely talking about the 1900s and onward. specifically the Xing
even within Chinese documentation the Xing were referred to by some as a foreign occupying northern ethnic minority, but who is and isn't ethnically sovereign becomes difficult to discern when your state is a fragile as fucking candyglass
The thing with the Qing dynasty and Chinese history in general is that the entire religo philosopical outlook of China since its earliest inception under the Xia and Shang dynasties has been that of a divinely appointed autocrat to rule over all below heaven. A plausible argument can even be made that China's first recorded dynasty the Xia are a fabrication by the Zhao dynasty to justify there overthow of the Shang. China's entire existance up until the 20th century has been a sucession of dynastic autocrats given divine ligitimacy by chinese culture and religious beliefs to give context the Xia are tentitivly dated to 2200-1760 bc that's over 4 thousand years of this shit being the accepted way to do things.
is it Qing? can never keep it straight
depends on your translation but i think Qing is generally accepted as the name of the last imperial dynasty
The CCP pretty much cntinue that tradition in a way
They have the Mandate of Heaven, because they threw out the colonial scum and made China great again
the mandate of heaven by definition cannot be the mandate of the people
ehh, it kinda is and kinda isn't
it's 'whatever works' institutionalized
so if it works
you got the mandate
The mandate itself in complicated
for example the first ming emperor was born a poor peasant
thw whole continent seems to have been fair game at some point or another
China's problem has always been its size
and to give full context The Hongwu Emperor Rose to power under the Yuan dynasty founded by Kubli khan, who were seen as foregn invaded and generally disliked by the chinese
They weren't wrong
They overthrew an oppressive autocratic regime to replace it with another repressive autocratic regime
Sounds like modern Russia
and past Russia
Dam Asia is shitty
"Taking"
now that's terrifying
logical long term consequence of the one child per family policy and the genocide of baby girls in China
now they have an at least 200 million imbalance, male to female
Obligatory "it's almost as if..."
What is with china stealing people? They even do it to there fellow Asian neighbours.
They have to make up the difference somehow, so why not basically kidnap a bunch of women from other places and force them to marry Chinese men.
BRUH
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