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Showing posts with label chairman mao. Show all posts
7 Oct 2025

Scarlet Threads

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A Study in Scarlet   (SA/2025)    There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life,  and our duty is to...
1 Sept 2024

Reflections on a Broken Vase

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Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2014) Photo: Daniel Azoulay / Pérez Art Museum Miami     I.    There was an amusing story in the news a few ...
27 Oct 2023

Notes on Charlie Chaplin's Closing Speech to 'The Great Dictator'

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Charlie Chaplin as the Jewish Barber and  Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator (1941)     I.    There's probably only one thing worse i...
26 Jan 2022

The First Rule of Chinese Fight Club: the Authorities Always Win!

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Trust me. Everything's gonna be fine. Fight Club (dir. David Fincher, 1999)      I.    One has many good reasons to despise the Chinese...
13 Jun 2020

You Say You Want a Revolution ...?

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I. Initially, Black Lives Matter was a civil rights movement for a younger, angrier, more woke generation of activists and campaig...
26 Mar 2018

On Dead Sparrows and the Great Leap Forward

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Poor Dead Sparrow   Stephen Alexander (2017) I pretty much like all birds (with obvious exceptions, such as the vulture, ostrich...
17 Aug 2014

Chairman Mao and the Swindle of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Image of Chairman Mao: uncyclopedia.wikia.com Traditional Chinese Medicine is, of course, an entirely bogus modern phenomen...
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