Rise and Fall of China with Wang Gungwu

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Wang Gungwu,(born 9 October 1930) is an Australian sinologist.He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia.
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Apparently some people are really in love with dictators.
There is no such thing as good dictator or dictatorship, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

ancienthistorylover
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Hey do you guys have a lecture or lectures of the rise, peak and fall of the Sui & Tang Dynasties.

HVLLOW
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Correction, the ruling class of the Tang dynasty was Han Chinese, hence they bore the family name of Li. They had Turkic blood as the founder of the Tang dynasty's grandmother was from a Turkic tribe in today's Xinjiang region, the Li's of the Tang were also related by marriage to the Sui dynasty, so the Li's were given land by the Sui emperor to govern the north-western province, hence the intermarriage.
Han Confucian scholars tend to distant themselves from the Tang dynasty because a Tang emperor married his father's concubine, which is a huge taboo in Han Confucian culture, so they made excuses such as "the Emperor's ancestors were Turkic, so that is a common practice." Which I am not sure is the case, but looking at the Tang emperors' lineage, it is found that Turkic blood is very diluted.
P.S. That concubine later became the only female Emperor in Chinese history, Wu Ze Tian.

brainwashington
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Great content but lousy title. The talk was meant to enlighten people who don't know about China about the grand history of China and how that reflects to the modern challenges that China is currently facing. It doesn't specify the "rise and fall of China, " or what I understood from the title as what made China rise and fall. It speaks of the progression of Chinese thinking through numerous revolutions that happened throughout its history. In fact, the conclusion is posed as a question, which is a continuous struggle as to how "Chineseness" would evolve with the progressions from all fronts.

Yang-rnzz
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Chinese love their past far more than their present for obvious reasons

mondealenza
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Let that be a lesson to the US and the West that they are also not exceptional.

They may had the power to colonise the world and be the present unelected hegemons. But Rome still fell; and so will the US and the West.

penangrubbish
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He appears to know china well with a Chinese face, but the way he analyses china is not materially different from a western scholar.

binzen
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09:50 In exactly two minutes he went from most of the Chinese are better off "wealthier" to most of the Chinese are in poverty.

aZM
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love this guy, very cool to hear more about the Qin.

broquestwarsneeder
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Really interesting video. One thing that has become apparent in the west is that despite all our democracy and free speech we're often unable to work together and are prone to sleep on our laurels. China is a tyranny that I would not want to governed by, and yet I must admit their ability to take action and get things done makes me a bit jealous. I think in the long term future we might have to rethink some core aspects of our democracies if we want to safeguard our liberties and not be outperformed.
This also reminds me of the Roman transition from the republic, through the principate and into the dominate. You can certainly notice how romans and greeks increasingly adopted despotic, persianate and yet effective methods of governance from the east (monarchy, divine rule, monotheism, cataphracts, etc) without ever losing that meritocratic and law abiding character, a sort of thesis vs antithesis that resulted in the extremely longevous and successful polity that was the ERE, which in some sense had a sort of 'Tianxia' mechanism that paralleled China's.

FelyneIbuki
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I’m gonna learn lip reading and then watch this again.

paxanimi
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Just think 🤨 if Japan hadn't been so terrible to China 🥺 they may have modeled there country after them instead of Russia 👍

donnysandley
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Good luck fellas hope you don’t get suicided

jeck
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how can republicanism one day flourish in the mainland like it very nearly did?

CrunchyNorbert
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Jumping on the anti-China cold war band wagon during covid19 crisis i see. So much for ancient history. Unsub.

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