Zhongjing Liu: 25 books

Extract: This is the root cause that drove me to study history. It is not about writing a few papers, doing some research, or following Yang Kuisong or Shen Zhihua in the hope that I could be another academic authority after they die or twenty years later. I first want to save my life. History study...

Extract: I think a lot of people will put Shanghai’s unlucky date in 1966, or in 1953 of the Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns, or perhaps the most sensible person will at least put the date in the time of Northern Expedition of anti-imperialism. However, these factors are considered externally....

Extract: How can we change this unfriendly environment? Then you must not be satisfied with a general weak invention. You must make a strong invention. The role of strong inventions lies not only in its active construction but also in the destruction that its competitive consciousness promises. The...

Extract: The main standard for winners and losers depends on how long your timeline is. The short-term winners are often the long-term losers, and no one is an eternal winner, except that you can say that God is an eternal winner. No one in the mortal world is truly a permanent winner. If we set the...

In the foreseeable future, no matter what the United States does or does not do, Inner Asia will certainly become a battlefield for all kinds of extremist armed forces. The most active interveners in Inner Asian will certainly pay the heaviest cost. Whether China realizes this or is willing to pay...

In the future, you are actually faced with: either you completely overturn the discourse system, reconsider yourself, redefine yourself, redefine your missions and tasks or you will follow the unreliable and untenable discourse system and lead yourself to an absolute danger. This is why you have to...

Extract: The future development of Sharia is still unknowable, but you can reasonably infer from its historical and evolutionary model that where the power of the vanguard parties is stronger, the local order resources will be consumed more violently. In the short term, these places will dramatically...

Extract: First of all, we must consider what colonialism is. Because colonialism is not a definition, but a moving process. If you must define or interpret colonialism according to a certain definition, you will probably come up with something much more wrong than simply describing it. You have to...

Extract: As Patrick Henry said in his speech, "The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! " The time when you can still choose is not long. When I was writing an article on Douban in 2008, I said, "The die has not landed yet."...

Extract: It can be said that what is divine? Divine is that the power against you will eventually work for you. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt and the allies of the New Deal did not want to make the United States an empire, although McCarthy and the opponents of the New Deal did not want to create...

Time: Tue, September 26, 2017 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT Location: Fordham University Lincoln Center Extract: Depending on your own true values and positions, or potential benefits that you can't shake off, you can choose to play a role in this game, to manipulate the borders, the nation inventions, and all kinds of nation myths and the nation-building process.