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Was just told that my book will be in physical form by the end of the month. They've got both hard and paperback!
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔
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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔
@HistorianZhang
Historian of #China. #Tea addict. My book on government sale of jobs in Qing China: hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
Hong Kong
Joined April 2022
- From friend - current US in late Qing malaise Flooded with opioids Closed to foreign trade Navy rotten to the core Government in paralysis Misuse of military funding Governors ignoring central orders Throwing birthday parties for the emperor Fixing up imperial gardens
- The exams are driving them crazy. Hallucinations of being Jesus' brother coming soon
- Man the new DLC for CK3 is going to give me weeks of this gold. People are learning in real time how crap the whole exam system is And no savescumming IRL
- "This piece of paper is full of preposterous ideas, from what I can tell you're insane" Imagine getting this from your emperor感觉是……很好用的一张朱批（
- Replying to @paumegranateI remember in college the Asian American Alliance kids decided they represented all Asians and I thought to myself that we had basically nothing in common other than maybe skin colour...
- One thing I talk about early on in my survey class is how rapid the transformation has been in China. Students today and students even ten years ago have very different experiences. Kids who grew up in the 90s distinctly remember life in a lower income country /1
- Reading Qing officials' personal diaries, can confirm. Even top guys were not really that busyVERY unpopular opinion humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.
- All this talk of "they won't buy our cars" and it's funny how the only place where Buick still sells is China
