Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

[Aleksey_aka_al]

I'll just leave it here: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/24/content_7847073.htm

 

[Dachs]

There was Han nationalism back then during the Qing(and I might say even further back, but more or less prevalent among the educated classes, the majority probably didnt really care that much about dynastic changes, considering China's 5000 year-old history); to say that nationalism didnt exist among the Han Chinese back then would be somewhat weird from you, considering your knowledge in history.

Protonationalistic tendencies may have evinced themselves in certain more educated segments of the Han Chinese populace during the later Qing period, similar to sentiments in France late in the Hundred Years' War, in Poland during the Deluge, or in Sweden during the civil war of Karl IX and Sigismund. It would be assigning those tendencies an import far beyond their actual one to compare them in scale with the nationalist developments in Europe at the same time.

Why do reasonable voices in society like yours tend to get replaced by more radical tones?

Ignoring the argument about whether Parenti is a "reasonable voice", the short answer is that nobody gives a damn about nuances anymore.

 

[Eretz Yisrael]

Protonationalistic tendencies may have evinced themselves in certain more educated segments of the Han Chinese populace during the later Qing period, similar to sentiments in France late in the Hundred Years' War, in Poland during the Deluge, or in Sweden during the civil war of Karl IX and Sigismund. It would be assigning those tendencies an import far beyond their actual one to compare them in scale with the nationalist developments in Europe at the same time.

Ignoring the argument about whether Parenti is a "reasonable voice", the short answer is that nobody gives a damn about nuances anymore.

Well, at least this article, in my opinion, is a reasonable, and fair article, albeit bellittling the sufferings of the Tibetans at the time.