Reached the 400 page milestone.
Good discussion on Japan and China.
Interesting how Japanese students saw the Indian kids diving for pennies to the amusement of British. This motivated them to study hard and make Japan incredibly quality conscious in science and tech. Shogun, Meiji etc. And how Japan likes to take claim as liberator of Asian colonies while the colonies don't think so. The racial aspects of treaties before world war 2...shipping tonnage.
China's Confucian administrative service and its survival for close to 2000 years. Opium wars. Weak empire. Rebellions. Boxer War. Jesus complex of the rebel leader. Americans getting busy with their civil war which helped European powers support the empire instead of rebels. How the administrative test was corrupted by the landowners and wealthy who could pay for the services. Sun Yat-Sen and communism. Communist parties claim of being a continuation of Confucian ideals!
Tomorrow Iran.
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