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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱

@taigdara.bsky.social

Phd-ing history at the University of Hawaiʻi: "The China Democratic League at the first People's Political Consultative Conference"

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 4w ago

I end every semester with a final class on why history matters and it is usually the best class of the whole semester. History is so much more than "the past" -- it is a way of thinking and it is open and welcoming to all sorts of research agendas. I am proud to be a historian. The world needs us.

American Historical Association@historians.org · 4w ago

The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history and the value of a history degree, and reflections on why learning about the past helps us understand the present.

Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The reason for ministership lies in the fact that the world is too big for one man to govern so governance must be shared with colleagues. Therefore, when one goes forth to serve, it is for all-under-Heaven and not for the prince; it is for all the people and not for one family." Huang Zongxi 1663

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Huang Zongxi. 1663. "In ancient times all-under-Heaven were considered the master... The prince spent his whole life working for all-under-Heaven. Now the prince is master, and all-under-Heaven are tenants. That no one can find peace and happiness anywhere is all on account of the prince."

Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To all of the students who took my Search for Modern China class this last spring: THANK YOU~ 非常感谢O~ Reading the course feedback reminds me of why I spent decades of my life on the path to becoming a professor. Stay curious!! 「 致知在格物。物格而後知至，知至而後意誠，意誠而後心正，心正而後身修，身修而後家齊，家齊而後國治，國治而後天下平。」《大學》

Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have added at least one lecture on the history of education to nearly all courses I teach now. Most of my students really don't know what college is for. Teachers became teachers to make better citizens. Not to make workers. And now, to see them outsourcing thinking to AI -- it is a crisis.

Boze the Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When there is a new book by a famous historian of modern China with many words about primary sources... but then the whole book is only 180 pages, and barely even mentions the Third Force... Well I still get to write my dissertation. Now, if only I could access those archives... Something NEW!

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Our movement expresses the spirit of social justice. In this dark China, there is no effective law, and politics are so reactionary that a group of traitors can feel safe having numerous guards to protect them. People feel outraged but do not dare say anything." -- Luo Jialun, 1919

Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Coming from an IR background and now working on domestic Chinese constitutions and congresses, this is still relevant reading. "Historical Institutionalism and International Relations" www.e-ir.info/2012/04/16/h...

Historical Institutionalism and International Relations

Anyone seeking to forward an historical-institutionalist agenda faces a basic problem: the approach doesn't have what many would consider a coherent core.

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why did the evolutionary socialist and liberal democratic ideas of the "Third Force" actually fail? Or was it that the institutions failed them? "Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s," by Glenn D. Tiffert link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s

Imagine, for a moment, interpreting the American Constitution ignorant of The Federalist Papers, Marbury v. Madison, the New Deal, or the Warren Court. How would we comprehend English Common Law absen...

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Chinamaxxing" has come and gone in the past. Oftentimes the vibe quickly became belligerent, not infatuated. Sound familiar? For many, many years people asked me why I study China. Now it's suddenly a big fad? Somebody tell the hiring managers!!! Economic actors make economic decisions. #Marxism

WIRED@wired.com · 7mo ago

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. www.wired.com/story/made-i...

ChinaObservers@chinaobservers.eu · 7mo ago

What's the point?🤔By absorbing Hu into the official canon, Xi reassures #CCP elites while issuing a clear behavioral message: reform is allowed - but only within strict ideological boundaries. 👉 Read the full analysis: chinaobservers.eu/canonizing-h...

Canonizing Hu Yaobang: Memory, Discipline and Power in Xi Jinping’s China – chinaobservers

On November 20, in Beijing ’ s Great Hall of the People, the Chinese Communist Party marked the 110th anniversary of Hu Yaobang ’ s birth. Xi Jinping ’ s decisi

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the season of grading finals it is easy to lose sight of the fact that everything is progressing towards the ultimate goal. These are the books that live on my desk. I stare at them everyday patiently waiting for the time when I can focus solely on them and nothing else.

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I just finished reading a stellar essay by Guantao Jin and Qingfeng Liu, titled: "From 'republicanism 'to 'democracy': China's selective adoption and reconstruction of modern Western political concepts (1840-1924)." Then I found this: www.readingthechinadream.com/jin-guantao-...

Jin Guantao and the Authentic Mind

Jin Guantao, “The Mentality of Many People Today Marks a Return to the 19th Century” [1]   Introduction and Translation by David Ownby   Introduction   Jin Guantao (b. 1947) is without a...

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Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱@taigdara.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is very similar to my PhD topic and I am super excited to read it. Thanks for your hard work!!!

Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波@xiaobolu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The CCP’s triumph over the KMT shocked the world—even the Soviets bet on the KMT with more aid. My book, Domination and Mobilization, asks: how did the CCP survive and prevail? Domination and Mobilization offers three fresh arguments that explain the reversal of the century. 👇 cup.org/3G6WKB2