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the most obscure hardcore concubine in Chinese history is the Honored Lady Zhang of the Jin dynasty. this one time, her emperor was like "haha you're approaching 30 i should throw you away!!"

so she killed him later that night. and bribed enough people to get away with it.
i feel like this has such "service worker snaps after customer makes shitty joke for the ten thousandth time" energy
don't cower to threats veiled as jokes. be like Honored Lady Zhang.

And the other hardcore historical Chinese women in this collection 😔👌: twitter.com/i/events/12806…
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gonna talk a lil about Chinese American food bc it's honestly so fierce that a bunch of amateur cooks working with unfamiliar ingredients managed to create a cuisine style that captivated America even under intense discrimination (1/?)
so the first wave of Chinese immigrants to America were mostly from Toishan, Guangdong in the South of China, where the tastes notoriously skew sweet. they were mostly men who had no idea how to cook bc cooking was seen as a woman's job (2/?)
BUT LABORERS GOTTA EAT, so a bunch of them improvised with cooking techniques and ingredients. China also had a very developed restaurant culture, so the first Chinese American restaurants opened in the mid 1800s in San Francisco (3/?)
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Don't fall for any "order must be restored by the troops" rhetoric when that was the SAME excuse the Chinese government used during the #TiananmenSquareMassacre exactly 31 years ago

Here's a wider than usual shot of what Tank Man was really facing.
also don't drop your guard because of any concessions the military might seem to be making, because that's what the 250,000 troops mobilized to Beijing did on May 24, 12 days before the massacre
and note that telling protestors to back down without their demands being met DOES NOT WORK because that's exactly what got things heated 2 days before the massacre
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MDZS/The Untamed Cultural Annotation Thread 5: Names Part 2, since I'm still getting questions about them

First things first: Cangse Sanren and Baoshan Sanren are not names. They're titles that just share their last two characters, which mean something like "leisuring rogue"
Baoshan Sanren 抱山散人: Leisuring Rogue Who Hugs the Mountain

Cangse Sanren 藏色散人: Leisuring Rogue of Hidden Colors

in fanfic, you would treat these like "Hanguang Jun," no addition honorifics needed, and you can't shorten them into nicknames
Question 2: how come no female characters have courtesy names? did women not get them?

women DID, but they were so rarely recorded that authors hardly ever bother to give any to their female characters
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