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It has closed as a de facto delete, with the article being blanked and protected. Please take a look at Comparison between Roman and Han Empires/Draft.Teeninvestor (talk) 16:38, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

I have NEVER in four years seen a AFD close this way. Fabulous job. You should thank the closer of the AFD with a barnstar, found here: WP:Barnstar. At first I moved it to your user space, to avoid it being deleted immediately, then I saw the afd and realized that it was stubified.
I would go to some wikiprojects for help, it will be hard to find editors to find editors as interested as you, but you can try.
Before moving the article to main space again, I would actually work with the "MA" editor who supported deletion and get his opinion, also the AFD closer. The more people you talk to and get involved, the better chance the article has of being saved.
Before moving the article to main space, email me too. Ikip 23:21, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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This barnstar is awarded to User:Teeninvestor for making the unprecedented closure of Comparison between Roman and Han Empires possible, despite enormous odds. You work gives hope to all editors who try to save articles. You are an inspiration to all wikipedians. Ikip 23:24, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Would you like to be a featured editor in the next WP:Article Rescue Squadron newsletter?

I was hoping to interview at least two editors for the next Article Rescue Squadron newsletter.

Here is the interview from our first issue to give you an idea of what it is like:

After the incredible and inspiring result of Comparison between Roman and Han Empires, and all the work you put into it, would you be interested in being interviewed?

I could e-mail you the questions, or we could make a special page on wiki for the questions. Ikip 23:35, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Teeninvestor/Comparison between Roman and Han Empires/Draft

It seems that the history of the page is split in two places, that above (which you've just changed to a redirect) and Misplaced Pages:Article Incubator:Comparison between Roman and Han Empires. I'd recommend asking an admin to merge the page histories. That way, when the article is eventually moved back into main space the history shouldn't be too jumbled. I'd do it myself, but I've not merged page histories before and now isn't the time to start experimenting. Nev1 (talk) 16:34, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Teen, you could do this yourself. Ikip 19:02, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
History merges require admin tools (unless by "do this yourself", you mean ask rather than perform the history merge). Nev1 (talk) 20:52, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Note, I deliberately did not move the article history because the point was to start a new article from scratch. Unfortunately, some people decided to ignore the suggestion and start from an already tainted position. Spartaz 20:53, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

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Interview

Here are the first initial questions:

I am trying to find a veteran editor too interview also, so there maybe two interviews in this newsletter.

There will be follow up questions and more controversial (interesting) questions soon.

Ikip 20:50, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind my editing on the interview. I shortened, clarified, and removed words like "deletionist" etc. which may make the project look bad to the larger audience who will read it. I really like what you wrote. I would like to shorten it even more, but all of it is so good, I don't know what else to compress. :) Let me know what you think. Ikip 05:13, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi again Teen, just to inform you, someone has re-introduced deleted material into the article in the header section; you may wish to check this out because I know you'd removed it during the recent review. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 15:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Teeinvestor,
I'm here to ask for more information on the stirrup. You sourced Griffith when you claimed that the stirrup was invented during the Warring States and revolutionized warfare. However, according to my sources the stirrup was only invented during the Eastern Han, and that was still just something you use to get onto a horse, not something you use to ride it. Thus I don't believe that it's important enough to start a "military revolution". However, the stirrup during the Age of Fragmentation is similar to modern stirrups, and some say that this helped introduce heavy cavalry into China. Of course, I don't know what Griffith actually said so some info on this would be welcome.
I would also like to point out how the article paints the Qing dynasty as a dynasty that had no military advancements whatsoever, and the Ming is this progressive dynasty that was bound to be technologically savvy. Although true to a degree, I would like to point out that the exact same condition is true for late Ming as well. For most sources, should the Ming have continued, it would only mirror the fate of the Qing dynasty. I would like to point out this source. http://www.oslo2000.uio.no/program/papers/m1b/m1b-dicosmo.pdf

It shows how the Qing tried to improve gunpowder weapons as well, though it inevitably lagged behind.

Last but not least, I question the validity of the "Equipment Section", as it generalizes the Chinese army into one similar to those of the Song dynasty. However, each dynasty (or even periods within dynasties) can contain vastly different armies that simply cannot be generalized as such. For example, the "cavalry" section certainly isn't true for the Han dynasty while the Infantry section isn't true for the Warring States. In fact, the part about having weapons that could "cut through" any other weapon simply isn't technologically possible for any dynasty. The only weapon that fits the definition would be lightsabers. Any weapon, no matter how sharp or sturdy, usually cannot just "cut through" any weapon of worth.

Gnip (talk) 12:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Yet the sentence right after the quote you gave said the entire thing was "speculative". Anyway, my intention isn't to erase the fact that gunpowder technology lagged during the Qing. I just want to note that the trend already started to happen during the late Ming. I'm hoping to flesh out the article a little bit. The article seems to make some sweeping generalizations on the Equipments section. In the future I'm hoping to resolve this by putting the army makeup into the dynastic sections instead. There are also some places where there are examples labeled without sources or used suspiciously (for example, I doubt the Sun Tzu's Art of War would talk about the Tang dynasty), in which I hope you could help me with (considering the Li/Zheng source is in Chinese while it's hard for me to improve a statement that never stated its source). In the future I'm planning to add sources from Osprey, Cosmo, Needham, and Liang Jie Ming's siege weapon sight. Gnip (]) 4:12, 13 January 2010

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Please have a look and add content:War of Internet Addiction Arilang 00:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

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好久不见. :)

Somehow the fact that Tenmei was banned and now needs a mentor does not surprise me. I've never met anyone who could rant so incessantly about the same topic for hours on end. He could write a book with all the space he used! Lol.

As for Comparisons between Rome and Han, I like the current suggestion that the article should be about the modern academic study of the comparison between these two civilizations. I've made that clear on the incubator talk page. Speaking of Rome and Han, I've recently set my sights on rewriting the article for the Parthian Empire, truly the key player between Han and Rome. You can take a look at the notes I've started to compile at User:PericlesofAthens/Sandbox Parthian Empire. To me it seems very strange that the existing contemporary sources for the subsequent Sassanid Empire are so much richer and abundant than those of the Parthian era. Much of Parthian history has been preserved via external sources, such as through Greek (i.e. Seleucid), Roman (including Greek Romans), and Chinese historians (mostly Sima Qian's descriptions of the diplomatic exchanges between Han and Parthia). It's a damn good thing the Parthians minted a different coin for each king (complete with a raised, Greek-style bust), otherwise the chronological succession of each ruler would be hazy at best.

Take care and good luck with the SAT!

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Hi

Hi, been long time since last time talking to you, how is your study? Please have a look at this, might be interesting:

http://club.kdnet.net/newbbs/dispbbs.asp?boardid=1&star=9&replyid=5817667&id=3002628&skin=0&page=1

文章提交者：monachus 加帖在 猫眼看人 【凯迪网络】 http://www.kdnet.net

汉语的缺陷 及给中国文化的影响早有定论，为民族自尊的原因而只在学术界小范围内讨论。


1 语言，语法不精确，导致 不能建 立有清晰内涵和外延界定的抽象概念。 而概念的缺乏直接干扰中国文化逻辑学的产生。自然也就没有逻辑思维了。

2 象形文字没有进一步转为字母化的符号体系。缺乏丰富的符号体系来表征抽象概念，符号工具的缺乏使得中国古代数学家已经非常接近微积分，而最终无法创造微积 分的原因， 符号对概念的抽象替代-“算符”。也是现代量子力学的基石。

3 长期接触图像化的象形文字，使中国人的大脑长于形象思维， 弱于抽象思维。长于艺术，文学，人际关系，弱于自然科学，法律。

文章提交者：monachus 加帖在 猫眼看人 【凯迪网络】 http://www.kdnet.net

符号不仅可以代表概念，还可以代表概念之间由逻辑关系而形成的一个相对固定的结合体，量子力学中的算符就起这种功能

丰富的符号体系造就现 代科学。

象形文字的汉字让中国人无法形成符号体系。

另外， 音形不联系的汉字难学难记， 没有三年艰苦的学习难以读书看报，中国的文盲数量比例非常高。

而表音体系能说即能读， 儿童可以更早的接触文字信息，智力开发也更早。

汉 字难学 ，使得儿童接触同样数量的文字信息比表音文字教育体系下的儿童有1-2年的迟滞，而这1-2年的迟滞对智力发育带来的危害非常大。 Arilang 06:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

How about this:

http://wikilivres.info/%E6%9D%A8%E6%8C%AF%E5%AE%81%E6%8C%87%E7%82%B9%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BC%A0%E7%BB%9F%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%EF%BC%9A%E4%B8%AD%E5%8C%BB%E5%92%8C%E3%80%8A%E6%98%93%E7%BB%8F%E3%80%8B%E7%BB%93%E5%90%88%E6%B2%A1%E6%9C%89%E5%89%8D%E9%80%94

归纳与推演都是近代科学中不可缺少的思维方法。为说明此点让我们看一下Maxwell（1831-1879）创建Maxwell方程的历史。Maxwell是十九世纪最伟大的物理学家，他在十九世纪中叶写了3篇论文，奠定了电磁波的准确结构，从而改变了人类的历史。二十世纪所发展出来的无线电、电视、网络通讯等等，统统都基于Maxwell方程式。Maxwell's equations

  • 第一，《易经》影响了中华文化中的思维方式，而这个影响是近代科学没有在中国萌芽的重要原因之一，这也是我之所以对于《易经》发生兴趣的原因。
  • 第二，《易经》是汉语成为单音语言的原因之一。
  • 第三，《易经》影响了中华文化的审美观念。

Well, without ABC and 12345, there is no way the Chinese could ever develope the all important equations. Same as the Newton's law, and the E=MC(square) Arilang 20:40, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, it's been a long time since we've met at the debate over the Ming and Qing dynasties last year. I see that you're the creator of Qin's wars of unification and I've expanded the article over the past few days by adding translated information from Chinese sources. Please take a look and see if you've any ideas on how to promote it to A-Class or GA status. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks. _LDS (talk) 08:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. _LDS (talk) 13:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hi again

Please have a look Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet Eric A. Havelock Vassar College may be this really is the reason why Chinese is so backward on science? Arilang 08:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

How about this

http://literaturesotherlanguages.blogspot.com/2010/01/prejudice-against-pidgin.html

"Going even further with respect to the situation in northern China, Hashimoto Mantaro theorized that during the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644-1911), the language of the capital was not Chinese but rather a pidgin made up of Manchu and Chinese elements, as well as a few elements from Mongolian and other minor languages. Furthermore, he suggested that modern Beijing dialect was a descendant of that pidgin. Though this theory is impressionistically persuasive, the major obstacle in accepting it is the lack of solid empirical evidence.

Teen, if the above theory holds, that mean the nowadays Mandarin is in fact part Manchu part Chinese, that could only means, culturally speaking, as long as we are speaking Mandarin, we are part of Manchu! Isn't it a bit frightening? Arilang 22:08, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

The sound of ancient Chinese

李白 月下獨酌 中古漢語朗讀 Arilang 22:19, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Please have a look and give some comments:User:Arilang1234/Comparison between written English and written Chinese Draft Arilang 06:30, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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Comparative studies of the Roman and Han empires


Please stop trying to include the external link to your own pamphlet and try to respect the ongoing discussion/vote. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2010 (UTC)



Please tell us if you have an understanding disability with regards to the proper demeanour while a discussion/vote is still underway. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 21:24, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Before anyone responds to the above, Gun Powder Ma has been warned not to make personal attacks or he will be reported to ANI. Nev1 (talk) 22:30, 18 April 2010 (UTC)



GPM, that external link was valid, as it showed your lack of understanding on what Wikiversity stands for; it was conducive to the discussion and not completely malicious. The only other link added to the Wikiversty page was added by DreamFocus, who initiated the discussion.  Anyways, I came to your talk page, Teeninvestor, to remind you to keep your talk page messages neutral, to avoid violations of WP:CANVASS. --Patar knight - /contributions 14:58, 17 April 2010 (UTC)



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Chinese armies, pre-1911


Hi Teen. Yeah, I've pretty much been active due to my latest project on Parthian Empire. You may want to check that out; there's some information on Chinese trade relations, and of course what the early Chinese histories have to say about Persian and Near Eastern civilization contemporaneous with the Han Dynasty. But of course, there's a lot more information on the Roman Empire and Kingdom of Armenia! I'm hoping it will become a featured article.

As for the article you are concerned about, I'll take a look. However, I actually don't own Temple (1986), which I borrowed from my university library ages ago for List of Chinese inventions. I have a few books in my personal library which might be useful. I'm at work right now, so I can't do anything at the moment. In fact, I should go, since I shouldn't even be at Misplaced Pages right now! Lol. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 20:41, 22 April 2010 (UTC)



Hi Teen. Sorry I have not responded lately, but I don't think I can be of much help unless I take a trip to the library and confirm information using Temple (1986) and other sources. As for Jia Sidao, I mentioned him numerous times in the article History of the Song Dynasty, using a source that I actually do own and is part of my personal library (i.e. Rossabi (1988), Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times). However, Rossabi does not go into biographical detail about Jia's life; he is only mentioned here and there in passing due to the main focus on Kublai Khan. As for the Song Dynasty article, yes it does mention that Wang Anshi established a salt monopoly, but I do not claim it was the first such monopoly in China! Obviously I am aware of the much earlier Han-dynasty salt monopoly (I did write Economy of the Han Dynasty after all), which I didn't feel was incredibly relevant in the Song article, but perhaps it could be mentioned. What I think you're getting at is a permanent government monopoly on salt since Han times, which is incorrect. The government monopoly over the salt industry was interrupted many times with interregnums of private control; Wang Anshi was merely reviving a traditional monopoly which had been established and revoked many times. I do not believe I have a decent source on Song hyperinflation. Unfortunately most sources I read about Song economics are small journal articles, which have a rather narrow focus and only mention hyperinflation in passing or as a means to clarify other points about Song economics. If I find something with an incredible amount of detail, I'll let you know. One source I would immediately look for, however, would be the Cambridge History of China (1986) volume which covers the Song period; that should certainly contain a rich amount of economic information. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 21:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Teen. I can't respond to everything at the moment, but when I return to my computer I will address everything that you've mentioned over at my talk page. Cheers and good luck with the SAT!.--Pericles of Athens 23:05, 30 April 2010 (UTC)



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Why are you deleting sourced material? It is just a few quotes. Unless you come up with something to replace it that isn't full of grammar errors, I will keep the article as it is. Discuss your changes on talk page.Teeninvestor (talk) 20:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

It´s the word of the World bank!! Not some bad facts from som magazines! My changes is sourced! Look at the source and read it, you´ll se!



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Must see video


Hi, I think this video is very good.
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Another must see video


http://v.ifeng.com/his/200903/e924cdee-18aa-4ede-9493-f6e012d15ddc.shtml#f55799f6-3ded-49bc-981d-794e682a16ff 



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Economy of the Han Dynasty


Thanks! Parthian Empire certainly looks good, although you were right to point out the lack of economic information. However, for reasons beyond my control, there is a systemic lack of primary source materials for Parthian history which would allow me to describe Parthian economics in any sort of detail.

As for Economy of the Han Dynasty, could you point out the specific sentence which says this about Eastern Han? I can't seem to find it. You quote the words "heavily taxed" but this phrase does not appear anywhere in the article. Once you point out the relevant sentence, I can perhaps share a quote or two from the cited source and we can discuss it if you like. Sound fun? Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 05:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)



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Sticking to my promise of sending these out monthly, it's time for the June edition of Positively Economics, covering the events of May, which has passed relatively quietly for the project.

Nevertheless, Misplaced Pages is a wiki, and things can change quickly and often without much notice. All contributions can be, and often are, important, regardless of how trivial they may seem. I, for example, have been working on our new list of unsourced BLPs, having added a significant number of economists to the project earlier in the month. But more on that in the newsletter itself.

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It's been another constructive month for the project. Misplaced Pages remains, as ever, a very popular source of information about basic economic theory, as well as for biography and more specialised topics, and we shouldn't forget that contributions to these core articles remains our greatest strength. Onwards and upwards, as they say, for another month.

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Qing Dynasty mining


Really? I was completely unaware of this. If correct, it would certainly help to explain more than just the lack of coal-powered machinery concurrent with Europe's industrial revolution. Timothy Brook, in his Confusions of Pleasure (1998), talks about sporadic Ming-era restrictions on silver mining (which never lasted very long). However, I am largely ignorant about Chinese government restrictions imposed on mining any type of resource during the Qing, let alone any other dynasty. Can you guide me to the source where you discovered this? I'd love to know more about this.

And about our earlier conversation where you asked about the Eastern Han imposing heavier taxes on merchants to make up for the loss of its salt and iron monopolies, look to page 609 in Patricia Ebrey's "The Economic and Social History of Later Han" Cambridge History of China (1986). Property taxes were also raised in Eastern Han to compensate government revenues after the reduction of the land tax for peasant farmers (Nishijima 1986: 596–598). It was a step in the right direction to remove the burdensome monopolies and restore private control. However, as with all governments which seek to maintain their own self-sustaining power, the Eastern Han administration found raising certain taxes to be sufficient (until the obvious occurred during Huan and Ling's reign periods).--Pericles of Athens 02:45, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Teen, this statement "even going as far as to prohibit mining ", looks like it is a wrong statement, I am afraid. In all the past dynasty, "mining" was never ever being "prohibited", and that include the Qing dynasty, because without mining, there shall be no copper for the coins, no iron for the swords and ploughs, no salt for cooking. "Restriction" on private sector's involvement of mining, yes, to prevent private merchants from getting rich, and hence out of control. Arilang    12:48, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, only out of control from the imperial government's point of view; since the scholarly class viewed the merchant class as almost parasitic to society, the fact that some merchants were more powerful than government officials was detested. However, you are right that this attitude and approach to certain areas of the private sector was nothing new to the Qing Dynasty; nationalization of salt and iron during Emperor Wu of Han's reign is an early example.--Pericles of Athens 21:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

PoA, before 1911, 仕農工商, 仕= Bureaucrats, 農=farmers, 工= craft-men, 商=merchants, Merchants were always at the bottom of any imperial dynasty, because the emperor would not like to see a rich and powerful merchant class to challenge the Imperial Court. This is the main reason why Capitalism had never been able to form in ancient China.  Arilang    07:06, 9 July 2010 (UTC)



Great Divergence


Reference 41 isn't working. And please be careful when editing articles. References should go after punctuation, and in this edit you removed sourced information without providing an explanation, presumably by mistake. Nev1 (talk) 22:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

I've just noticed that in the bibliography section you've given the publication date of The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9 as both 2002 and 2003. Which is correct? Nev1 (talk) 15:50, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

As well as changing the date, you also changed the volume number from 9 to 8. Now the bibliography says that The Cambridge History of China: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 is both volume 8 and 9. Nev1 (talk) 16:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that out. Nev1 (talk) 16:38, 5 July 2010 (UTC)



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Literary Inquisition


Could you please explain the basis of this edit? I reverted it as it seems a bit POV. Nev1 (talk) 01:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I think the problem isn't so much with what it was, but when, ie: the assertion that it was restricted to the Qing dynasty. Did the source mention that? Nev1 (talk) 16:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, which source is this? Nev1 (talk) 16:16, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I see. In light of this edit, I'm going to say Xu is incorrect and perhaps biased. Further details of exactly what he says may be required to assess whether his point of view is valid, although in the meantime I'd recommend removing him as a source. Nev1 (talk) 16:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Still though, inquisitions were not exclusive to the Qing. Nev1 (talk) 16:24, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely, the sources are clear that the Qing are most notorious for inquisitions (rightly or wrongly), but that's not the same as an assertion that only the Qing committed them. Nev1 (talk) 16:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

You implied it by unbalancing the article on literary inquisitions . Nev1 (talk) 16:33, 13 July 2010 (UTC)



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We can talk later


I am literally walking out my door right now to meet a friend. I can talk about these articles later, as well as Qing mining. Arilang does bring up a good point though about the prohibitions on new private mining projects as opposed to government-run mining operations to extract metal ores.--Pericles of Athens 23:36, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

About Chinese armies (pre-1911): I don't know exactly how much help I could offer here. I do own Needham's SSC Volume 5.7: the Gunpowder Epic, but I do not have Volume 5.6: Missiles and Sieges. Is there something specific you would like from the volume focusing on gunpowder weaponry and development? I'd have to borrow the other from the library, but I don't have the time or patience this week (and perhaps even the next) for doing that. To be honest, I consider Parthian Empire to be one of my last great endeavors here at (English) Misplaced Pages, as I find that I have less and less time these days to even visit, let alone pursue a project. I honestly don't remember Needham ever outright making the claim that, compared to every other world power, China had an unmatched military for a solid two millennia, at least not in the volume dedicated to gunpowder warfare. I would imagine such a statement could be hard to find; the index certainly won't help! I can see how Temple would be able to reach this conclusion for specific weapons used at different times, but the claim seems to raise more questions than it answers. Let me know if there's something else you need to know about a particular weapon/war engine/army unit/time period/defensive armor etc.; that is something which I can readily help you with. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 00:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

You still want my opinion about the Qing prohibition on private mining projects? I don't have much to say other than I think it's a self-defeating economic policy to stifle private entrepreneurship simply out of fear that some merchants will become very successful and wealthier than most scholar-officials. As you are well aware, this paranoia about private parties becoming powerful enough to challenge government authority was old by the time the Manchus conquered China. When it comes to mining metal ores, I could imagine this paranoia being heightened by the fact that copper and iron mining are closely associated with the production of currency and weapons. The Manchu rulers perhaps figured this would discourage counterfeiters as well as powerful merchants still harboring pro-Ming sentiments (who could utilize iron mining as a means to challenge the state with their own well-supplied rebel armies). One of the arguments put forth against private iron manufacture during Emperor Wu of Han's reign was that some wealthy iron manufacturers were amassing work forces of up to a thousand men, who were working for dangerously powerful private interests instead of working in traditional farms (and being properly assessed on the tax rolls). Perhaps there were similar arguments put forth by officials at the Qing court, but I do not have sources to confirm this. If you could find some of the Qing-era edicts or even documented scholarly debates on this issue, it would be helpful for both of us in reaching a greater understanding of what was really going on. Thanks.--Pericles of Athens 00:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, that depends on which portion of the Ming Dynasty we are talking about; certainly not the Hongwu Emperor's reign period! The rights and freedoms of merchants (let alone scholar-officials) were simply disregarded. I think that if he lived at the same time as Draco (lawgiver), the two would get along very well (lol). Of course, by the latter half of the Ming period there was an enormous sea change in attitudes at court and in the realm of scholar-officialdom about how the merchants and entrepreneurial class should be viewed and treated. Instead of being viewed merely as morally bankrupt and a necessary evil in the system of Four Occupations, some merchants were eventually commemorated by scholar-officials as positive contributors to society, such as in public works projects, artwork, literature, etc. The blending of the merchant class with the scholarly gentry in the late Ming is a rather remarkable social revolution considering how segregated these social groups were in previous times (with some obvious exceptions). Thank you for confirming my thoughts about the Qing-era scholarly debate on mining; unfortunately the courses I took at George Mason did not focus on this issue whatsoever (I'm fairly certain the texts we studied didn't even mention this subject). Although we did read a great deal of excerpts from the Han Dynasty Discourses on salt and iron.--Pericles of Athens 01:19, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Lol! I concur; those are some great occidental examples of state interventionism in private economies. As for the gunpowder section of your article, I'll see what I can do. As for now I am retiring from Misplaced Pages for the night (I've got a mountain of emails to reply to). Take care and good luck.--Pericles of Athens 02:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

That's an excellent find! A treasure trove, really. It's a shame I've already read most of them in English already! Lol. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 02:26, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Hush now! You mustn't let the copyright vigilantes know your dark secret that *gasp* is too abominable to repeat here! Lol. All the links to my various sandbox pages can be found at User:PericlesofAthens/Sandbox. Although some are labeled "Ancient Egyptian literature," "Parthian Empire," "Marian reforms", etc. the ones with my notes for the major Han Dynasty project are labeled #s 2 to 6. There's a mountain of information both paraphrased and quoted verbatim by yours truly. Enjoy! And consider yourself one of the lucky few who know that my private sandbox exists! Please, though, be slightly discreet about it. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 04:09, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, where exactly did GunPowderMa say this about the cannon? Certainly not in the article for cannon. And yes, it's about time that someone made Discourses on salt and iron! I'll have to contribute to that, but excuse my slowness to do so, since I have chosen another project to research at the moment.--Pericles of Athens 15:50, 30 July 2010 (UTC)



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Chinese Economic Reform


It would be a pleasure to copyedit the article for you and convert the references to Harvard format. As to the pictures, I make no promises there about my ability to find freely licensed and appropriate ones, but I will try after copyediting it. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 18:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

I sincerely apologize for the delay; some things have come up, and I have been very busy this last week or so. I will, however, begin what you requested tonight. I am sorry if this has caused any trouble. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

So Bafflegab already did the hard work, huh? Just an aside, why is it that you want all the references converted anyway? かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 21:35, 6 August 2010 (UTC)



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Protests against suppression of Cantonese speaking tradition  Arilang    12:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Teen, would you please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Protests_against_suppression_of_Cantonese_speaking_tradition#Protests_against_suppression_of_Cantonese_speaking_tradition
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Re: Great Divergence


A good ref work is Janet Abu-Lughod's BEH book (which I need to stub...). It is a major argument in the world-system theory. While it argues for the existence of the world-systems before the "long 16th century", it also nicely describes how  the shift in world-systems (putting Europe ahead of the other regions) occurred around that time. I agree with what you write about Middle East and Japan, but I would like to see the ME section created and stating that (JAL supports it); as for Japan, I would like it expanded more (in fact, if you could recommend a source on Japanese trade and cultural contacts with other lands in that era, I'd love to read it - apparently my knowledge of that subject is lacking). Btw, I feel that such discussion should in its entirety take part on the article's discussion page. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  17:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)



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Taxation in premodern China


I can already tell that this will become very useful. I am busy and can't add any content to it at the moment, but I will review my notes and see if I can make some small contributions. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens 03:03, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

In Economy of the Han Dynasty, you cite Maddison for your claim that Needham refutes Maddison. Does Maddison really provide some sort of summary of Needham's argument against him? If so, does Needham directly refute the per capita figure of $ 450 (in 1990 US dollars) and provide some other estimate? Needham's exact words are critical here; does Maddison cite the Needham work he is referring to?--Pericles of Athens 03:08, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

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August 2010

 
 You have been blocked from editing, for a period of 48 hours, for continued hounding of Gun Powder Ma (talk · contribs) per discussion on ANI. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions.  If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal the block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Toddst1 (talk) 14:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

{{unblock|This block is unjustified. I have not violated 3RR, edit warring, misrepresentation of sources, or any other policy. I was reporting another editor's bad behaviour and I got blocked for "hounding" him? He reported me several times yet I don't see him getting blocked. Not to mention that I contacted said Admin to help stop a vandal, and he ended up blocking me instead of the vandal. Anyways, if unblocked I promise to make no further reports (though I wasn't going to anyways after ANI).}}








Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):


per agreement to voluntary sanction agreed to below. Toddst1 (talk) 15:05, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Request handled by: Toddst1 (talk)

 Unblocking administrator: Please check for active autoblocks on this user after accepting the unblock request.



I'll leave another admin to review your request, but you seem confused as to the reason for your block. You know what forum shopping is. I'm at a loss to understand why, then, you thought it would be appropriate to bring up again the same list of incivility that was dismissed by review at the Wikiquette board yesterday at ANI today. These were the only new incidents you added to your report:  and , from May 2010; and this. It might have been appropriate to bring those up in the existing Wikiquette complaint, but hauling the WQ stuff that had already been reviewed along with two very stale and one relatively mild incident to ANI reads very much like "asking the other parent". It doesn't help when you indicate that the user is rejecting moderation and link to this, where the other editors who reviewed the matter did not find an issue.
You've been here long enough that you should know some of the basics of Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution. ANI is for urgent situations; it's not for personal attacks from May 2010. Edit warring on another forum in July 2010 is not urgent in mid-August 2010. Per policy, "The Administrators' Noticeboard is not the place to raise disputes over content, or reports of abusive behaviour. Administrators are not referees, and have limited authority to deal with abusive editors." If you feel that you have legitimate issues with this user, there are steps you can take via Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution, but you need to be patient and follow process...and if other contributors tell you something is not a problem (as they did at the Wikiquette board), listen to them. Don't go elsewhere looking for an answer more to your liking. --Moonriddengirl  14:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Offer of conditional unblock
I'll be willing to unblock you on one condition: you agree to a voluntary sanction to avoid Gun Powder Ma. That means not talking to him, not talking about him and not editing the same articles and talkpages as him (within a month).  Are you willing to make such a deal?  Toddst1 (talk) 14:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes. However, I have a question. What if he suddenly comes to an article I am editing (I would accept the condition regardless, but I want to know what to do).Teeninvestor (talk) 14:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

You stop.  I'll talk to GPM and ask him not to do that.  Deal? Toddst1 (talk) 15:02, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

K.Teeninvestor (talk) 15:02, 11 August 2010 (UTC)



Talkback




Hello, Teeninvestor. You have new messages at  81.226.72.209's talk page.
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