Category: china
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Lost voices, blank sheets of paper and umbrellas.
Symbolism has taken the voice away from writers and artists, each and every demonstration in Hong Kong and China has been challenged by security laws, but voices such as Ai Weiwei, or writers such as Zu Zhiyong are either in exile or prison. Symbols have become so important, the blank sheet of paper or the…
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Colonialism in China
The ideas determining empire in the nineteenth and the end of empire in the twentieth century, could be found in the genesis of the Portuguese empire in the sixteenth century, and the Dutch and British empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The monopolisation of trade by Europeans, led to a dominant core elite determined…
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