Mike and Jon Introduce themselves and While We’re On The Subject. They then discuss China and break down its ethnic makeup, how it compares with Korea, and how the very diverse people of China interact with a regime that often doesn’t relate to them all too well.
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Worshiping Carl Sagan?
Mike’s Idea of China: British China (Hong Kong) and big massive China
China’s significant ethnic diversity
The Western Roman Empire disintegrated in the 5th century
China's Tang dynasty collapsed into the “5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms period” a few hundred years later
Correction: Tang Dynasty was from roughly 600-900 ad. Apologies
China has significant diversity in languages spoken
The Chinese had several periods of disintegration, namely the warring states period, the 16 kingdoms period, and the 5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms periods
China reached its greatest and roughly its modern size during the Qing dynasty in 18th century
Classic Korean style and haircuts.
What Jon ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner while he lived in Korea
The ubiquitous Korean Matching couples wearing sweaters and Zebras
The Austrian Hungarian Empire held within it about a dozen distinct nationalities
The Han ethnicity only predominates in the eastern half of China
This is a map of the core vs the frontier regions of China
Xinjiang was conquered by China’s last dynasty in 1750
China’s domination of their western territories are not dissimilar to England’s colonization of India or the Netherland’s rule over Indonesia
200 years of Spanish Rule of the Netherlands
The Uyghurs of XinJiang or East Turkestan
The Different Colonial rulers of Taiwan: Netherlands, Spain, Qing, Japanese
Sichuan a southwestern region of China has the best food
Northern wheat noodles from HeilongJiang
XinJiang separatist knife attacks
Books We're Reading:
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow
Man did Jon say “distinct” and “distinction” a whole hell of a lot