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on Qing History last Thursday, on the Boxer Rebellion.
A cult movement that went out of hand, thanks to the stupidity of the Qing government, and people died.
Well the CCP classified it as a “patriotic movement” and an “anti-colonial movement”, and much had been written by historians in mainland China. We had to discuss and [...]

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on commercial history during the Ming and Qing dynasties last Tuesday.
Q: Devise an investment plan for a capital of 10,000 taels of silver, for the beginning and mid Ming dynasty and the end of Qing dynasty.
We had the information that during the Ming dynasty, loan interest rate of 2% per month to 5% per month [...]

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