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Monday, July 10, 2023

Foxconn Playing Hardball With Lordstown, India -- July 10, 2023

Locator: 45060TECH.

Some folks just don't under the business concept of "win-win."

From Reuters today:


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The Book Club

China's First Emperor and his Terracotta Warriors, Frances Wood, c. 2007. 931WOO.

Notes.

Frances Wood is the head of the Chinese department at the British Library. 

Many years ago, we were fortunate enough to see the terracotta warriors on tour, in London.

Introduction

China's first emperor, 259 - 210 BC.

Terracotta warriors discovered, 1974:

  • while drilling a well
  • Xiyang village
  • Yanzhai rural commune
  • Lintong county
  • Shaanxi province

Xiyang village, Yanzhai rural commune, Shaanxi province:

First emperor:

  • a Chinese Hitler
  • b. 259 BCE
  • eldest son / heir of King of Qin ("chin")
  • founder of Imperial China
  • father of the imperial bureaucracy that governed vast territories for 2,000 years 
  • he became a tyrannical bogeyman, the enemy of intellectual life and historic culture

From here go to notes.

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