sisi jiang

HE WAS FINED $150 FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING THE COUSIN OF PUYI???? dammmmnnnnn the qing fell far

amazing things are happening in my mentions

i’m really starting to appreciate the complexity of chinese-english translation. i bought 4 english books that were originally written in chinese and the cashier stared at my receipt for 5 minutes and told me she thought the total cost must have been an error 😂

What were the Chinese Communists like, anyway* In what way did they resemble, m what way were they unlike. Communists or Socialists elsewhere* The tourist asked if they wore long beards, made noises with their soup, and carried home-made bombs in their brief-cases The seriousminded wanted to know whether they were “genuine” Marxists Did they read Capital and the works of Lenin* Had they a thoroughly Socialist economic programme* Were they Stalimtes or Trotskyites* Or neither* Was their movement really an organic part of the World Revolution* Were they true internationalists* “Mere tools of Moscow,” or primarily nationalists struggling for an independent China*

reading about the western leftist response to the ccp pre-1938 is so funny. they’re fighting a guerrilla war in a media blackout and the “serious-minded” want to know if they’re “real internationalists” who have read capital. socialists never change fr

riley you’re scaring me, are you CERTAIN you don’t remember falling on that knee repeatedly

really annoyed that apparently in your 30s you can just hurt yourself doing normal stuff you did in your 20s. does anyone know if this reverses or…

i learn about chinese politicians thinking they were some kind of scholar-official but NO SOME OF THEM HAD RIFLES AND THEY SHOT GUYS IN THE FACE

reading about chinese communist history gives me so much whiplash because what do you MEAN that NERD who wrote DENG XIAOPING THOUGHT was actually a whole PLA COMMANDER who LED MILITARY OFFENSES against the kuomingtang??? DXP??? that guy?????

the baby was SOOOO soggy and trudging away grumpily from tourists who wanted to feed him LOL

beijing has the fattest stray cats and i love them so much

buddhist shrine with statue of a bodhisattva

pink flower buds

snow covered lion

moon bridge reflected in water

风花雪月

bro i am in the mountains of a western beijing suburb where the british and the french couldn’t stop burning down our imperial gardens 😭 like how did they even know this place existed? i found out about it last week. im not looking for beef but man they just torched anything connected to the qing

basically if china gets too factionalist then it will be fire emblem three houses irl

while i was at the revolutionary memorial hall museum at fragrant hills i suddenly had the revelation that the purpose of the ccp is to prevent romance of the three kingdoms from happening ever again

战国时代 just keeps happening huh

read red star over china because oh my god. it’s just human dramas all the way down. i’m visiting fragrant hills today but i just wanna get back to my book.

chinese civil war lore is so insane man. what do you mean one of chiang kai-shek’s own subordinates took him hostage because he was too focused on hunting communists instead of fighting the japanese, leading the ccp to debate executing him for five seconds before stalin got involved.

erika ishii is a Real One

psst hudson is a right wing republican think tank. i also don’t think trump is capable of playing this kind of 5D chess when he’s already making a ton of basic mistakes with epic fury

in contrast the huge portraits of the qing emperors (one is qianlong the other i forget) got like 4 viewers max despite being like ten feet away from the coronet which i think is deeply funny

fun fact: the sichuan rupee exists because britain tried to do currency war with the indian rupee 😭 like bro you already got the imperial treasures and all those ports WHY DO YOU STILL NEED MORE

i love communism because it lets me see coins that are thousands of years old—for free. like what do you MEAN ancient chinese people carried little pocket knives around and that was their CURRENCY

no exaggeration to say that the crowds for viewing the phoenix coronet of empress xiaoduan was almost comparable to the crowds i had to fight through to see the mona lisa. everyone’s elbow in my face at once!

so obviously i was totally enamored with the bronze masks and statues on loan from the sichuan sanxingdui museum but also: isn’t it nuts that some artisan made these 4,000 years ago and they survived to be found in the present day? boggles the mind

i have so many photos to post but check this out: imagine that you’re a guy in the warring states period and this was your wine cooler. like wtf

breakdown of a car

some kind of manufacturing crane idk it looks cool

model of a factory

model of a green factory

ok the manufacturing exhibit goes kind of hard i have to admit. no i’ve never thought that hard about how many pieces go into a car but i do now. i can’t believe tickets were free.

bro i am losing my mind ARE THOSE ORACLE TURTLE SHELLS FROM THE WARRING STATES PERIOD this museum has everything and im only on the first floor 😭 might start crying in public if the bronze heads from chengdu are still on loan here

also i got to see the original flag hoisted at the 1949 founding ceremony :’) as well as some fascinating drafts of the flags that could have been (apparently there was a national call for submissions and thousands of artists sent in a design)

the national museum has amazing war paintings even if i don’t agree with the decision to hang them at neck craning height

xi jinping please take notes from zohran and convince trump to let tencent hire 10000000 unemployed american game workers thank you