By the time that Zhu Yuanzhang rode to the imperial throne on the back of Maitreyan prophecy in the fourteenth century, the Chinese apocalyptic narrative
This post was originally published as part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable.Meet Sima Qian. I hold him in high regard. You could say that this was a historian with balls. Sima Qian is sometimes called the “Herodotus of the East.”…
Where to start when navigating the diffuse and complex tradition of thought and religious practice dating back to the very beginnings of Chinese civil.
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