China has had its share of dark ages, as I was saying. What sets China apart from most other societies in the modern world is that during each of its dark ages, after a few centuries of chaos, it managed to pull itself back together and restore something fairly close to its earlier form: not just once, but three times in a row.

Surviving Catabolic Collapse: A Case Study

One of the longstanding traditions on this blog is that when there are five Wednesdays in a month, my commentariat gets to propose topics for the fifth Wednesday post, and whichever topic gets the …

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