Jeanne-Marie Gescher

Thinker & Strategist; Author, Becoming China, The Story Behind the State.

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

A very happy Christmas, that special time for seeing what we normally miss. thank you #LifeonEarth @planetepics https://t.co/QC6j9lA6y9

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

Kerala needs all her elephants. We all need Kerala.

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

Replying to @NatGeo salute or no salute #species. least we can do for habitats we've taken. always good to see we can still do it https://t.co/amm5e9VdUs

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

This elephant appeared to salute her baby's rescuers—but that might not be the case

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

@John_Hempton so sorry. website being redesigned. should be done in a few weeks. thank you so much for reaching out. love your parrot !

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

one of our three mass extinctions, the others being human knowledge and the wild world; all related @ensiamedia @rinconsolar https://t.co/IPfD3j4PXZ

[Eduardo A. Rincón M. @rinconsolar]

Seeking answers on climate change, scientists venture into the vaults of the past https://t.co/DXZDldvdgu vía @ensiamedia

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

I think Prince Albert came before the triumph of the shop-owners and had as much if not more to do with it as urbanisation. Urbanization scaled it. As so often, history narrows to today's tags. https://t.co/mLy5A7vNsY

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Christmas in preindustrial Europe and America looked very different from today’s iteration
https://t.co/i70LrAaIxR

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

maps always good but Forbes still on the pure economic story. Belt and Road part of much bigger idea than supply chains. that bigger picture is story told in last chapter of Becoming China. https://t.co/50SOSYSHsM

[Geoff Wade @geoff_p_wade]

Belt And Road: China's Strategy To Capture Supply Chains From Guangzhou To Greece
https://t.co/2OmaSMixbI

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

quick question tht might need longer answer: where will the alternative come from? if voting was abt opinion, mny things we can/should vote against. bt voting usually applied to a choice of things to vote for. sequencing sure, bt random seq'ing cld easily deliver other tyrannies. https://t.co/zHy5BpBRE6

[spiked @spikedonline]

Quick recap for Remainers. We didn't vote against the EU to change the colour of our passports. We voted against it because it is deeply illiberal, undemocratic institution that has inflicted hardship and technocratic tyranny everywhere from Greece to Ireland to Britain. OK?

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

knowledge. one of the 3 mass extinctions https://t.co/DAFiBEaiik

[Isabel Hilton @isabelhilton]

UK is reading less. Colouring in more. #dumbbritain https://t.co/QkuRsXJe8X

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

If the West wants to retain, let alone defend, its liberal values it will need to rethink the binary idea of identity. https://t.co/p2fhkrbcGi

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"If minorities around the world enjoyed a right to independence, few would exercise it." https://t.co/B2QOGCBgYg -
#AJOpinion

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

reconciling the individual and the collective, as important as balancing the settled and the wild worlds. Fujian's hakka found an answer in architecture. https://t.co/X6BRCO9Z5L

[Sixth Tone @SixthTone]

A tulou is a round, earthen structure built centuries ago in eastern China, and NGOs hope restoring such fort-like buildings will rejuvenate rural culture #YearInReview https://t.co/wo7jPDGMzr

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

education as commodity always unlikely 2 succeed. hunger & culture always key; West lost hunger long ago & in world of 1 bn echo chambers, culture now politically incorrect. See Dharampal's The Beautiful Tree. 18th c. now open source. if any prescribed reading should b this https://t.co/rTP0dbSxrj

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Report: Chinese Third-Graders Falling Behind U.S. High School Students in Math, Science https://t.co/ZMqwQELcvf

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

perspective always essential https://t.co/IvAYZigXOO

[Conrad Hackett @conradhackett]

STATISTICS OF THE YEAR:
Americans killed annually by

All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Being hit by a bus 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737
https://t.co/OSAtlR8jnK

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

the settled world was built on the wild world of ideas. as it chases greater objectivity, it is increasingly, and dangerously, forgetting its roots. https://t.co/w8bk3bvXiL

[Lacey London @thelaceylondon]

It's NOT hoarding, if it's books...

#amwriting #amreading #ASMSG

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

@kasparov63 What is 'America', what is anywhere ? old certainties, for what they were, are gone. present democracy unlikely to improve a promise that has hollowed out. time for reform. with what mechanisms ? west not used to the idea of reforming itself. https://t.co/Ty3ibFzTeb

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Until Trump, I believed that official public spectacles of personal loyalty and nationalism that reminded me of the Stalinism were limited to dictatorships. https://t.co/gctNDnsfuk

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

什么是真的什么假的, what is real and what is not real, always a bigger question than we think https://t.co/Mk8hQ9LreD

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

社会 摇, the social shake, order in the wild world of society, including the 黑社会 black societies, that began as brotherhoods of men. https://t.co/m4ePE90er7

[Sixth Tone @SixthTone]

The "Social Shake" has become a cultural phenomenon. So, what exactly is this viral song that it is breaking the Chinese internet?
https://t.co/2KrhBP4hi5

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

languages r one of the 3 great global extinctions; details differ but whether led by top down minds or pressures on ground, cause is always push for uniformity; story of what happened in China is told in 'The Edges of Order' chapter of Becoming China https://t.co/lc56L41zHP

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

@UselessTree @JeremiahJenne @JKynge agreed. earliest land w mythical names instructive 2. 1911& immediate aftermath quite useful on pluralism & dynamism. agree centre/prov imp, bt think hard to separate from fabric of both past & present. less important for you. more for those who know much less; why I wrote book.

[Jeanne-Marie Gescher @tianxiaq]

@UselessTree @JeremiahJenne @JKynge yes, but actually one then has to question what 'China' is; really only present geography since 19th century/late Qing. Timeframe certainly diff and size makes diff too, but battle of order same