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

“Not only that, he was right for the right reasons – not through luck but because his powers of analysis, imagination and empathy gave him an extraordinary gift of prophecy.”
― Jesse Norman, Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics

“In the rest of the world, they used papyrus, clay tablets, or parchment for writing, but they all had similar drawbacks. But during the Han Dynasty, according to myth, a court official looking at wasps building their nest became inspired to create paper from the bark of trees, rags of cloth, fishing nets, and remnants of hemp. And according to this story, this invention happened around 105 CE. But archeological findings go as far as the 2nd century BCE, but the first use for writing on paper is evidenced in 8 BCE.”
― 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

“As the vilification of the Chinese people continued in the 20th century, new forces led the way to change and revolution, attempting to construct a modern society that they believed most resembled humanity’s constant historical tendency towards change. Marxist doctrine, in a way, appears to be both the salvation and curse of the Chinese people.”
― Captivating History, Modern China: A Captivating Guide to Modern Chinese History