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whatever7 posted:I read that book. He didn't "rape" women. More like a womenizer. (I believe in that book.) Yeah, it was more like he always made sure he had lots of starry-eyed young women from cadres who he could easily seduce with charisma + star power. IIRC he'd rotate them out regularly. Regarding the book, I always hear people claim that it's most fabricated, but I've never seen a good takedown that actually cites sources. Just drivebys that claim that Li Zhisui is a liar. The contents of the book are eye-opening, but not totally implausible, given how weird and isolated all-powerful leaders are known to get. Regarding him not bathing/washing his teeth with green tea, I could believe it. I work with lots of the ex-homeless population, and you would not believe how hard it is to get some of these people to take showers, after they've spent years/decades not doing so regularly. Mao was a peasant who became a hard-marching, live-off-the-land military leader. It's not implausible that he wouldn't care to take showers regularly even after the need for that lifestyle ended. TheBalor fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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LimburgLimbo posted:The thing thing about China threads is that they're as much about the posters who live there as they are about China. There's a certain subset of people who choose to live in Asia as expats, and then of those people there's a certain subset who in turn decide to live in China, and boy are some of them interesting specimens. It's like if never-never land was filled with cheap liquor instead of pirates. That's gonna be someone's thing.
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Darkest Auer posted:"I may not have any legal rights, I don't get taken seriously at work, I'm treated like a curiosity or a zoo animal on the streets, but look at all the SOFT POWER I have!" The power to get yelled at by taxi drivers! The power to pay more for street food! The power...to be groped by strange men in the streets. Use it wisely.
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symphoniccacophony posted:I agree to some extent with what you are saying, but others I would challenge. For one thing I didn't say Japan is Confucian. My actual theory is that the concept of rigid hierarchy originated from Confucianism, which is a big factor why its popular among rulers, as it teaches there's virtue in knowing one's place in the hierarchy and fosters a social norm that discourage subordinates from challenging the boss. I want to highlight this as being especially super-wrong. Legalism predated Confucianism, and the Hittites had strict hierarchies, complete with flowcharts!
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