Written on 29 Dec 2010, reproduced below. Lwh, 2 August 2025 Subject: Re: San Guo (part 5) Sent: Dec 29, 2010 2:50 PM San Guo…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 4)
Written on 29 Dec 2010. Lwh, 2 August 2025 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010, 07:31 Subject: Re: San Guo Yanyi (part 4) I am reading…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 3)
Written on 28 Dec 2010. Lwh, 1 August 2025 In Imperial China, there were 2 bases to claim the right to succeed to the throne.…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 2)
Written on Boxing Day 2010. Lwh, 31 July 2025 Subject: Re: San Guo (part 2) Sent: Dec 26, 2010 3:15 PM Sao guo yanyi is…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 1)
On Christmas Eve 2010, I began reading about the Three Kingdoms. I sent out by email my jottings on my reading, relating it to philosophy…
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The Golden Urn – Part 3
Professor Max Oidtmann wrote his book after he discovered two copybooks originally kept by the Qing ambans stationed in Lhasa between 1875 and 1900. Amban…
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The Golden Urn – Part 2
In this deeply researched book by Max Oidtmann, a German professor of Chinese history, we learn that the Golden Urn was used by the Qing…
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Tianjin Cosmopolis – Part 1
The Siege of Tianjin was part of a wider assault on foreigners in northern China, including the more famous Siege of the Legations in Peking…
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After Empire – Part 1
“The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” Thus begin the famous opening lines of The Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guan Zhong, summarizing…
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Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition – Part 1
The issue of Kashmir and its attendant bloodshed, like Palestine, will not be resolved soon. Kashmir is a bloody legacy of the British. In his…
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