Don't know whether this belongs here, but Turks and Japanese are apparently distant cousins, and it's due to millet farmers who planted the Eastern steppes before the rise of the pastoralists
Haven't a clue whether this is a boring statement of the concensus in the field, a daring new thesis or just some flat earth whacko theory that took in a gullible journalist. But in my defence, neither does the Guardian.
> Perhaps the most memorable fact for me from this book is that because of the overperformance of candidates from Fujian, the authorities imposed a ceiling on the number of officials from this province.
This also happened in the Ming dynasty. There is a conceptually similar system in place today for Chinese college admissions. (If anyone would like me to explain what I've learned about the Chinese admissions system, I'm happy to do so.) I'm not aware of a regional quota (today) for government officials, but there is no reason I would be; I've never made any effort to learn about one.
Don't know whether this belongs here, but Turks and Japanese are apparently distant cousins, and it's due to millet farmers who planted the Eastern steppes before the rise of the pastoralists
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/10/origins-of-transeurasian-languages-traced-to-neolithic-millet-farmers
Haven't a clue whether this is a boring statement of the concensus in the field, a daring new thesis or just some flat earth whacko theory that took in a gullible journalist. But in my defence, neither does the Guardian.
I think Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" should be mandatory reading for everyone in America right now. Could not possibly be more apropos.
> Perhaps the most memorable fact for me from this book is that because of the overperformance of candidates from Fujian, the authorities imposed a ceiling on the number of officials from this province.
This also happened in the Ming dynasty. There is a conceptually similar system in place today for Chinese college admissions. (If anyone would like me to explain what I've learned about the Chinese admissions system, I'm happy to do so.) I'm not aware of a regional quota (today) for government officials, but there is no reason I would be; I've never made any effort to learn about one.