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Category Archives: China
JTA: This Jewish lawmaker wanted to keep Chinese immigrants out. Should a park be named after him?
From JTA: The elder Kahn, a Republican from San Francisco who served 12 terms in Congress between 1899 and his death in 1924, championed an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1902 prohibiting immigration by Chinese laborers. While doing … Continue reading
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Chinese Cheat Close To 100% Of The Time
Bloomberg: “Statistically we’re uncovering fraud about 70 percent of the time, but in China it’s very close to 100 percent. It’s pervasive, it’s across food groups, and it’s anything you can possibly imagine.”
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Moses Wouldn’t Expect ‘China’ to Change
Chris* writes: In fact, no rational observer since Hegel has doubted his incisive judgment that nothing fundamental has changed in China over a span of three-plus millennia (‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History,’ ca. 1830). Hegel didn’t make it perfectly … Continue reading
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Jews, Opium and the Kimono: Story of the Jews in the Far East (2003)
From page 72: [In 1932, Jewish] refugees were amazed to encounter the prosperous local community and to realise that Shanghai remained the only city open in the world, where visas were not required. Page 79: [White] Russian officers taught the … Continue reading
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WP: ‘Yale dean once championed cultural sensitivity. Then she called people ‘white trash’ on Yelp.’
Washington Post: As the dean of Yale University’s Pierson College, June Chu is responsible for advising about 500 students and fostering “a familiar, comfortable living environment” in keeping with the university’s residential college system. Chu’s biography states she has a … Continue reading
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