Mya Told

This collection of cultural and political commentaries was compiled before they rigged our elections, censored our commentaries, banned websites, channels and blogs, and cracked down on their own people over hateful speech, conspiracy theory, denial and dissident. Boy, did we have a blast on freedom and human rights before Wokeism and the New Normal.

Thoughtful collection of aphorism and advice on dealing with the new totalitarian world of speech codes, rigged elections and democracy simulation.

I guess the message I took from the reading of Corruption in China is that it really is just a mild form of corruption in the West. The irony is that Western pundits cry out loud at the alleged lawlessness and barbarity of non-Western cultures and societies, when in reality what they are doing over there is in fact much more subtle and modest, compared to corrupt and criminal hellholes such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Berlin. The essay on Chinese muh-muh workers is best, and the essay on Chinese concept of salary runs deep. The idea to pay a peasant or laborer or state official a full salary is actual dumb, as any socialist in East and West, and indeed any regime or private employer can attest you. Ideally, you want them to own nothing and just feed and house them at their basics, so that they are totally dependent on you. This is exactly what is the case in the totalitarian European Union, in Socialist (they call it Democratic) America. Yes, everybody is riding on evil China for it, but really, this is a global phenomenon and simple political reality.

Excellent book! There will always be an East and a West or the two competing forces in the universe and on earth, and it is just a coincidence that we are divided this way and not the other way around. The West can easily become the feminine (again) while the East becomes the masculine. What will never change, however, is the natural, primordial antagonism. One side will do the exact other thing, just out of spite and to balance the universal equilibrium.

Simply mind-blowing. This fantastic, ground-breaking, most comprehensive and explosive study on the Chinese Shengren and Western colonialist translations will rank at the top of the academic and general literature on China and China Studies in the years and decades and centuries to come. Once read, it cannot be forgotten. It changes your views on EVERYTHING the West has ever lied to you and fabricated history for our students.

This book as a work of art. The author spent months squatting in an old Mind dynasty-style building next to No-Name Lake on the center campus of Peking University, the Number One in China. Nobody bothered him, because it was one of the many shadow institutes at Chinese (but also Western) elite universities, where fake titles, sinecures and perks are distributed to deans, profs and dons and foreign invites. Although the author is heavily pro-China, his disillusionment with "elite academia" in East and West shines through. Basically, the great academics are modern day holy men or sages who on paper have no money and pretend to live an ascetic existence, while in reality they hold dozens of titles and positions at the same time, live on tithes and diner with the rich and powerful like everyone else in the top 0.1%.

Is Confucius a saint or a sage or a philosopher, like the Western saints and sages and philosopher want you to believe? Or is Confucius a shengren - its own category, just like buddhas or rishis or imams? You can call the Chinese teacher anything you like, of course. But this eye-opening European competition for the most outrageous, doctored, possessive and proselytizing "translations" of Chinese shengren is really something to behold of. Holy Confucius! indeed!

If you are mesmerized by Western anti-China propaganda and 'enemy propaganda' in general, this is the go-to book for you. It was a website -removed. It was a blog -censored. It was an underground text -shadowbanned. It was re-edited and shared on social media -canceled. It is still here. Press Soldiers is most and foremost an attack on the China-bashers and foreign agents - trained to subvert and destroy - from The New York Times, the Guardian, the Economist, the Spiegel and Die Zeit and many others. The time will come when such critic and exposure of the criminal press will rank at the top of the literature on propaganda and psychological warfare in the world. Just saying. There will come a time for this.

A bold account of prevalent creepy European imperialism in China in the 21st Century. There is simply not enough quite like this in the chronicles of China-bashing and anti-Sinicism. Diary of a Mad Imperialist will rank at the top of China accounts and China studies.

The de-colonialization process hasn't even fully started yet as the 'the powers' led by the United States, but also the former imperialists Britain, France and Germany, have yet to set their former subjects' language, names and cultural originalities free. This book promotes the end of translation, a fair and healthy competition for key words from all cultures in the world, and the creation of a future global language that is diverse and inclusive. No legacy Western publisher in the world, if they are bend over self-preservation of course, would touch such a controversial work that threatens their 400 years of incorrect Western translations of Asian ideas and concepts. It was (and still is) the greatest theft and looting, and highly profitable to such status quo imperialist publishers such as Oxford and Cambridge University Press, Spinger and Bertelsmann academic journals, Brill and all the other robber barons. Their rule over Asia cannot last forever. 'Language Imperialism and the End of Translation' will rank at the top of the literature in the humanities.