Robert W. Cole

PhD candidate in 20th century Chinese cultural-intellectual history, New York University

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Excited to participate in this week's Political Economy Workshop at @HooverArchives

[Brian DeMare 江旷 @BrianDeMare]

Newly digitized: An elderly woman takes part in a land reform struggle meeting (斗争会） #土改

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A whole panel on China at @cirhusnyu's upcoming Futures of Intellectual History Conference: http://t.co/w4xQyYfPkz

[Joanna Chiu @joannachiu]

Jokes on Wechat about Beijing military parade. I had been wondering why so many people were talking about moon cake

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@ProvAtlantic @paigecmorgan @lisaannhowe @RmJackson13 @TheTattooedProf @cliotropic Thanks, all, for support and advice during a busy summer!

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@cliotropic @ProvAtlantic @paigecmorgan @lisaannhowe @RmJackson13 finally on vacation here! See you next week!

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Reminds me of the gorgeous Beitou library in Taipei http://t.co/gLwVHKzsbA

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Chinese homes as margin collateral: Why have three separate big bubbles when you can have one enormous super-bubble? http://t.co/6P82ZdqQjQ

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@cliotropic @RmJackson13 @paigecmorgan @lisaannhowe @ProvAtlantic @TheTattooedProf people are traveling tmo, plan to do check-in by tweet?

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Piketty: "Germany is *the* country that has never repaid its debt." https://t.co/bMBxhzeAII

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@iddqkfa One of their first revisions to George's theory/practice was the abandonment of the "single tax." See, esp., Adolf Damaschke.

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@iddqkfa But check this book http://t.co/jObpLgDaq7 for background; note that the Georgism employed in China came via German agr reformers;

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@iddqkfa There's little in English, particularly about the '30s. This same group of people ended up leading land reform in 1950s Taiwan;

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@InThePastLane Definitely, and timely in another sense for me: I'm finishing up a diss chapter on Georgist agric. experiments in 1930s China

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@hofrench I did a quick search; "Confucius" shows up several times in SCOTUS opinions, mentioned as a "god", never cited before today.

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More good news for all 50 states! https://t.co/xVhbeHJnk8

[DPLA @dpla]

Big news! @DPLA makes push to serve all 50 states by 2017 with $3.4 million from @SloanFoundation and @Knightfdn - http://t.co/YFtvspmueb

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Confucius and #marriageequality: Kennedy cites the 禮記; Scalia accuses Kennedy of writing "mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie" #SCOTUS

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Enjoying @InthePastLane's timely new book on Henry George, whose work bears revisiting in this #SecondGildedAge http://t.co/kQ4mObh2fr