Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Friday, October 26, 2012
“Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you”: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
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(6,500 words on Daniel Leese’s fascinating book Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution [Cambridge University P...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Dictator's Dilemma, Mao Edition
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Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh, June 1966: I advise you, not all of your subjects are loyal to you. Perhaps most of them are loyal but maybe a ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Great Norm Shift and the Triumph of Universal Suffrage: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.825
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(Continuing an occasional series on the history of political regimes . Lots of charts and graphs, and one slideshow, using the Political Ins...
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