Yunyufei Luo

DPhil student in economic and social history. Green Templeton College, Oxford. Views all my own.

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If Economic History is about the birth and growth of capitalism, maybe we should take capital slightly more seriously?

No, not factories or banks, but what the ordinary people in premodern agrarian societies save and borrow. My EHS blog on this. https://t.co/OphWZS8fKL

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The nativity of Jesus told in 17-ct. China among Daoist & Buddhist deities: 'In the year [1], the angel Gabriel announced, "God has chosen you to be a mother," and she became pregnant and gave birth. ... she wrapped him in clothes and placed him in a stable.'
Merry Christmas!

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@iskdin I wrote about the Quanzhou Muslims in early Ming for my undergrad dissertation and it seems genealogies of some Muslim descendants tend to talk about this, in particular 清源金氏, but I’m not wholly convinced by this account which appears over dramatised.

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@NuffieldCollege under the lights

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@AdrianGregory20 Thx so much again Adrian - tho I was envisaging more the ‘no savings left’ scenario than the ‘tempted by money’ one 😂. But I would def. give this option a more than serious consideration

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@AdrianGregory20 Thx so much Adrian. I haven’t actually gone through the maths but intuitively don’t think there would be too much savings left to support DPhil in 1/2 years’ work these days. If there were the earnings must be filthy good and even too tempting to give up.

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@AdrianGregory20 The secret is to put 5 crosses in rather than 1 (no pun intended)

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@AdrianGregory20 Wouldn’t there be voters thinking ‘Can’t be good for democracy to have one party with 2/3 seats, let me balance it out a bit’

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@HistorianZhang What about Han tho? Do see a lot of people of the classical history/antiqutiy strand doing Han-Roman comparison stuff etc.

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The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

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@oliverwkim @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein I thought that’s as clear as night and day: consumption potential is tied up by mortgages in the past decade with dramatic urbanization and ridiculous property prices.

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@AdrianGregory20 Chelsea have spent a solid billion since the American takeover with 12th and posssiblly 7th or 8th finishes. No trophies either

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@SinoMuslimLit @ibrar_bhatt Writing* a panegyric

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@SinoMuslimLit @ibrar_bhatt This is from a non-Muslim perspective, but I vividly recall 杜环 using the phrase 不信鬼神，祀天而已 to suggest monotheistism. And I have at least seen a 16-th century Quanzhou literatus repeating this 神vs天 trope when trying a panegyric for the local Mosque

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@hirako13 Still thanks very much for your insight!

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@HistorianZhang @elvinxmeng I wonder is the job market for Humanities/SocSci in HK/Singapore/Mainland any better than UK/US? (UK seems genuinely dystopian)

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@HistorianZhang Seeing how wonderful my tutors holding this kind of posts over the years and realising how horribly compensated and perilous their position are is one of the most disheartening factor that discourages committing oneself to academia (at least in UK)

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@HistorianZhang Prob two 1st year courses over the course of two terms, revision in 3rd, plus some miscellaneous tutorials for 2nd/3rd year courses. You can also do some piecemeal tutes for students of other colleges, but the pay for that is also horrendous, like £30 per hour of actual teaching?