Interrogating Chinese Exceptionalism in Chinese Historiography

Is China the oldest continuous civilisation? How did China survive while the Roman empire did not? Did Chinese culture stay true to itself by resisting or sinicizing foreign influences? Was historic China uniquely peaceful and stable among world cultures? Is the reunification of Taiwan and other ethno-culturally Chinese lands 'inevitable'? I'm ethnic Chinese and a …

Simulcrum and Shadow: Reviving the ‘Anti-Christ’ Archetype for Geopolitics

The Temptation of Christ (Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1–13) is a climatic portrait of confrontation between good and evil. Jesus, alone and starving in the wilderness, was confronted by the Devil who in a series of increasingly seductive snares, promised him food, immunity from death, and finally domination over humanity. The Devil figure quoted Scriptures (Psalms …