Pengsheng Chiu

“Political scientists warned of the death of democracy. Philosophers and literary critics worried about the death of truth. Internationalists fretted over the death of global trade and alliances. Historians, meanwhile, shook their heads and explained to anyone who would listen that we’d all been here before.”
― Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

“It would be only appropriate to start with probably the most important and influential invention that the ancient Chinese gave to the world—paper. Today it might not seem like such an important innovation, but it actually transformed the world by making it easier to spread the written word,”
― Captivating History, Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to the Fall of the Han Dynasty

“The public debt initially served to bolster the war-making prowess of states in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, governments borrowed to develop massive public works projects, including railways and canals. It was only in the twentieth century that the public debt was “discovered” as a key tool of macroeconomic policy and crisis management.”
― Sandy Brian Hager, Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State

“But, this time I have departed from my usual reticence because I know that there are some who, in their pleasant homes in America without any real knowledge of the facts, declare that the days of missionary hardships are over.”
― Janet Benge, Lottie Moon: Giving Her All for China