#Ling Chiang

[dear-indies]

hi!! can u suggest me some fc's for father and brother of Lauren Tsai? And for Ju Jingyi too. Please!!

Father:

Hugo Weaving (1960) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Michael Stipe (1960) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Jackson Lou / Lou Xue Xian (1962) Taiwanese.

Kuo Tzu Chien (1964) Taiwanese.

Paco Tous (1964) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Leon Dai (1966) Taiwanese.

John Cusack (1966) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Richie Jen (1966) Taiwanese.

Wang Tzu Chiang (1967) Taiwanese.

Vincent Chiao (1967) Taiwanese.

Chu Chung Heng (1967) Taiwanese.

Yu An-shun (1967) Taiwanese.

Tsai Yueh Hsun (1968) Taiwanese.

Wu Bai (1968) Taiwanese.

Victor Huang (1971) Taiwanese.

Jacko Chiang (1972) Taiwanese.

Roger Fan (1972) Taiwanese.

Welly Yang (1973) Taiwanese.

Matthew Cooke (1973) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Brother:

Rhydian Vaughan (1988) Taiwanese / White.

Kamaal Williams (1989) Taiwanese / White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Bie Thassapak Hsu (1991) Taiwanese / Thai - half sibling!

Giullian Yao Gioiello (1992) Taiwanese / White.

YU / Yu Teng Yang (1995) Taiwanese / Japanese - half sibling!

Anson Chen (1996) Taiwanese / Vietnamese - half sibling!

Sub Urban / Daniel Virgil Maisonneuve (1999) Taiwanese / White.

Patrick Brasca (1999) Taiwanese / White.

And for Ju Jingyi:

Father:

Chen Daoming (1955) Chinese.

Ni Dahong (1960) Chinese.

Hua Liu (1961) Chinese.

Jiang Wen (1963) Chinese.

Bai Fan (1962) Chinese.

Feng Yuanzheng (1962) Chinese.

Liang Guanhua (1964) Chinese.

Hou Yong (1967) Chinese.

Evergreen Mak Cheung-ching (1968) Chinese.

Dong Yong (1968) Chinese.

Hu Jun (1968) Chinese.

Huang Zhizhong (1969) Chinese.

Liu Xiao Ling Tong (1959) Chinese.

Brother:

Jiang Chao (1991) Chinese.

Qin Junjie (1991) Chinese.

Merxat Yalkun (1991) Chinese.

Li Xian (1991) Chinese.

Gong Jun (1992) Chinese.

Sheng Yilun (1992) Chinese.

Huang Jingyu (1992) Chinese.

Elvis Han (1992) Chinese.

Ryan Cheng (1993) Chinese.

Hu Yitian (1993) Chinese.

Bai Jingting (1993) Chinese.

Chen Ruoxuan (1994) Chinese.

Li Wenhan (1994) Chinese.

Deng Wei (1995) Chinese.

Ding Yuxi (1995) Chinese.

Leo Sheng (1996) Chinese - is a trans man - has spoken up for Palestine!

Li Yunrui (1996) Chinese.

Chen Xingxu (1996) Chinese.

Bi Wen (1997) Chinese.

Guo Junchen (1997) Chinese.

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[tiktaalic]

if ur not looking for book recs feel free to disregard but ted chiang writes really good hard scifi short stories, which could be a good straddle of the line between fiction and nonfiction and also because they are short stories easy to figure out quickly if you don't like his writing ... ling ma's bliss montage is another great scifi adjacent short story collection but one i didn't like as much as ted chiangs ... and if you're looking for science based non-fiction recommendations i thought that the order of time carlo rovelli was accessibly and interestingly if somewhat obnoxiously written at times and the information by james glieck kind of made me absolutely bonkers crazy and was generally a pretty good synthesis of the history of scientific advances in like the field of information theory/communication science with only a few flaws/outdated science moments imo

these sound awesome. i really need to pivot back into nonfiction. thank youuuuuu

[irismfrost]

July 16 - National Palace Museum and Chiang Kai-shek Shilin Residence

The National Palace Museum contains China’s most precious artifacts. During the 20th century, China was involved in many wars, including civil wars, sino-japanese wars, and world wars. The government wanted to keep these artifacts safe, so they were boxed up and moved around to different locations throughout the first half of the 20th century. Eventually, these artifacts were shipped to Taiwan during war times. The National Palace Museum was founded and opened to the public in 1965. There are so many artifacts that the museum rotates the items every 3 months. The museum has 3 floors of artifacts. They are organized a little bit by time period and you can tell by the type of material and designs of the artifacts. All of these artifacts are priceless. We took a look at this one blue-ish ceramic bowl. It was pretty basic looking and if it didn’t have any history attached to it, I would pay 10 USD for it at Goodwill. It is worth 36 million USD. It was interesting to see the influences of each dynasty on these pieces. It’s crazy how hundreds of years of history can be squished into an hour or two walking around a museum. 

We also visited the Chiang Kai-shek Shilin Residence. Yesterday, we visited his memorial. He was the first president of Taiwan, fleeing to Taiwan after losing the Civil War in China. He positioned himself as a savior and a powerful leader. The people around him respected him and were a necessary proponent of his success. His residence had a beautiful garden and a large house, I assume it was especially large for the time period. This house welcomed many famous people and many important political conversations took place within those walls. I particularly want to draw attention to his wife, Soong Mei-ling. She knew how to play politics and would join Chiang in important conversations with guests. She grew up in the US and went to Wellesley College majoring in literature. She was a fan of the fine arts, an avid painter, writer, reader, and also enjoyed movies and music. Chiang also appreciated these and was known to always have a book on hand. Chiang died in 1975 in this house, surrounded by family and friends. Soong Mei-ling passed away in 2003 in New York City. 

Reflection

There seems to be a divide within the people living in Taiwan. Part of this divide stems from Chiang Kai-shek. Some people love him and associate him with freedom and democracy. They see him as a savior because of his efforts against communism in China. Others see him as an invader and authoritarian leader that highly encourages others to adopt his ways. I think that even though everyone lives in Taiwan, some also associate themselves with their Chinese heritage, while others do not. The National Palace Museum, for example, is more like a museum for Chinese culture instead of Taiwanese culture, despite the fact that all of the artifacts belong to Taiwan.

[automatismoateo]

List of Gods, most of which are no longer worshipped. via /r/atheism

List of Gods, most of which are no longer worshipped.

Middle-East

A, Adad, Adapa, Adrammelech, Aeon, Agasaya, Aglibol, Ahriman, Ahura Mazda, Ahurani, Ai-ada, Al-Lat, Aja, Aka, Alalu, Al-Lat, Amm, Al-Uzza (El-'Ozza or Han-Uzzai), An, Anahita, Anath (Anat), Anatu, Anbay, Anshar, Anu, Anunitu, An-Zu, Apsu, Aqhat, Ararat, Arinna, Asherali, Ashnan, Ashtoreth, Ashur, Astarte, Atar, Athirat, Athtart, Attis, Aya, Baal (Bel), Baalat (Ba'Alat), Baau, Basamum, Beelsamin, Belit-Seri, Beruth, Borak, Broxa, Caelestis, Cassios, Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Brathy, Chaos, Chemosh, Cotys, Cybele, Daena, Daevas, Dagon, Damkina, Dazimus, Derketo, Dhat-Badan, Dilmun, Dumuzi (Du'uzu), Duttur, Ea, El, Endukugga, Enki, Enlil, Ennugi, Eriskegal, Ereshkigal (Allatu), Eshara, Eshmun, Firanak, Fravashi, Gatamdug, Genea, Genos, Gestinanna, Gula, Hadad, Hannahanna, Hatti, Hea, Hiribi, The Houri, Humban, Innana, Ishkur, Ishtar, Ithm, Jamshid or Jamshyd, Jehovah, Jesus, Kabta, Kadi, Kamrusepas, Ki (Kiki), Kingu, Kolpia, Kothar-u-Khasis, Lahar, Marduk, Mari, Meni, Merodach, Misor, Moloch, Mot, Mushdama, Mylitta, Naamah, Nabu (Nebo), Nairyosangha, Nammu, Namtaru, Nanna, Nebo, Nergal, Nidaba, Ninhursag or Nintu, Ninlil, Ninsar, Nintur, Ninurta, Pa, Qadshu, Rapithwin, Resheph (Mikal or Mekal), Rimmon, Sadarnuna, Shahar, Shalim, Shamish, Shapshu, Sheger, Sin, Siris (Sirah), Taautos, Tammuz, Tanit, Taru, Tasimmet, Telipinu, Tiamat, Tishtrya, Tsehub, Utnapishtim, Utu, Wurusemu, Yam, Yarih (Yarikh), Yima, Zaba, Zababa, Zam, Zanahary (Zanaharibe), Zarpandit, Zarathustra, Zatavu, Zazavavindrano, Ziusudra, Zu (Imdugud), Zurvan

China:

Ba, Caishen, Chang Fei, Chang Hsien, Chang Pan, Ch'ang Tsai, Chao san-Niang, Chao T'eng-k'ang, Chen Kao, Ch'eng Huang, Cheng San-Kung, Cheng Yuan-ho, Chi Po, Chien-Ti, Chih Jih, Chih Nii, Chih Nu, Ch'ih Sung-tzu, Ching Ling Tzu, Ch'ing Lung, Chin-hua Niang-niang, Chio Yuan-Tzu, Chou Wang, Chu Niao, Chu Ying, Chuang-Mu, Chu-jung, Chun T'i, Ch'ung Ling-yu, Chung Liu, Chung-kuei, Chung-li Ch'üan, Di Jun, Fan K'uei, Fei Lien, Feng Pho-Pho, Fengbo, Fu Hsing, Fu-Hsi, Fu-Pao, Gaomei, Guan Di, Hao Ch'iu, Heng-o, Ho Po (Ping-I), Hou Chi, Hou T'u, Hsi Ling-su, Hsi Shih, Hsi Wang Mu, Hsiao Wu, Hsieh T'ien-chun, Hsien Nung, Hsi-shen, Hsu Ch'ang, Hsuan Wen-hua, Huang Ti, Huang T'ing, Huo Pu, Hu-Shen, Jen An, Jizo Bosatsu, Keng Yen-cheng, King Wan, Ko Hsien-Weng, Kuan Ti, Kuan Ti, Kuei-ku Tzu, Kuo Tzu-i, Lai Cho, Lao Lang, Lei Kung, Lei Tsu, Li Lao-chun, Li Tien, Liu Meng, Liu Pei, Lo Shen, Lo Yu, Lo-Tsu Ta-Hsien, Lu Hsing, Lung Yen, Lu-pan, Ma-Ku, Mang Chin-i, Mang Shen, Mao Meng, Men Shen, Miao Hu, Mi-lo Fo, Ming Shang, Nan-chi Hsien-weng, Niu Wang, Nu Wa, Nu-kua, Pa, Pa Cha, Pai Chung, Pai Liu-Fang, Pai Yu, P'an Niang, P'an-Chin-Lien, Pao Yuan-ch'uan, Phan Ku, P'i Chia-Ma, Pien Ho, San Kuan, Sao-ch'ing Niang, Sarudahiko, Shang Chien, Shang Ti, She chi, Shen Hsui-Chih, Shen Nung, Sheng Mu, Shih Liang, Shiu Fang, Shou-lao, Shun I Fu-jen, Sien-Tsang, Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, Sun Pin, Sun Ssu-miao, Sung-Chiang, Tan Chu, T'ang Ming Huang, Tao Kung, T'ien Fei, Tien Hou, Tien Mu, Ti-tsang, Tsai Shen, Ts'an Nu, Ts'ang Chien, Tsao Chun, Tsao-Wang, T'shai-Shen, Tung Chun, T'ung Chung-chung, T'ung Lai-yu, Tung Lu, T'ung Ming, Tzu-ku Shen, Wa, Wang Ta-hsien, Wang-Mu-Niang-Niang, Weiwobo, Wen-ch'ang, Wu-tai Yuan-shuai, Xi Hou, Xi Wangmu, Xiu Wenyin, Yanwang, Yaoji, Yen-lo, Yen-Lo-Wang, Yi, Yu, Yu Ch'iang, Yu Huang, Yun-T'ung, Yu-Tzu, Zaoshen, Zhang Xi, , Zhinü, , Zhongguei, , Zigu Shen, , Zisun, Ch'ang-O

Slavic:

Aba-khatun, Aigiarm, Ajysyt, Alkonost, Almoshi, Altan-Telgey, Ama, Anapel, As-ava, Ausaitis, Austeja, Ayt'ar, Baba Yaga (Jezi Baba), Belobog (Belun), Boldogasszony, Breksta, Bugady Musun, Chernobog (Crnobog, Czarnobog, Czerneboch, Cernobog), Cinei-new, Colleda (Koliada), Cuvto-ava, Dali, Darzu-mate, Dazhbog, Debena, Devana, Diiwica (Dilwica), Doda (Dodola), Dolya, Dragoni, Dugnai, Dunne Enin, Edji, Elena, Erce, Etugen, Falvara, The Fates, The Fatit, Gabija, Ganiklis, Giltine, Hotogov Mailgan, Hov-ava, Iarila, Isten, Ja-neb'a, Jedza, Joda-mate, Kaldas, Kaltes, Keretkun, Khadau, Khursun (Khors), Kostrubonko, Kovas, Krumine, Kupala, Kupalo, Laima, Leshy, Marina, Marzana, Matergabiae, Mat Syra Zemlya, Medeine, Menu (Menulis), Mir-Susne-Khum, Myesyats, Nastasija, (Russia) Goddess of sleep., Nelaima, Norov, Numi-Tarem, Nyia, Ora, Ot, Patollo, Patrimpas, Pereplut, Perkuno, Perun, Pikuolis, Pilnytis, Piluitus, Potrimpo, Puskaitis, Rod, Rugevit, Rultennin, Rusalki, Sakhadai-Noin, Saule, Semargl, Stribog, Sudjaje, Svantovit (Svantevit, Svitovyd), Svarazic (Svarozic, Svarogich), Tengri, Tñairgin, Triglav, Ulgen (Ulgan, Ülgön), Veles (Volos), Vesna, Xatel-Ekwa, Xoli-Kaltes, Yamm, Yarilo, Yarovit, Ynakhsyt, Zaria, Zeme mate, Zemyna, Ziva (Siva), Zizilia, Zonget, Zorya, Zvoruna, Zvezda Dennitsa, Zywie

Hindu

Aditi, Adityas, Ambika, Ananta (Shesha), Annapurna (Annapatni), Aruna, Ashvins, Balarama, Bhairavi, Brahma, Buddha, Dakini, Devi, Dharma, Dhisana, Durga, Dyaus, Ganesa (Ganesha), Ganga (Ganges), Garuda, Gauri, Gopis, Hanuman, Hari-Hara, Hulka Devi, Jagganath, Jyeshtha, Kama, Karttikeya, Krishna, Krtya, Kubera, Kubjika, Lakshmi or Laksmi, Manasha, Manu, Maya, Meru, Nagas, Nandi, Naraka, Nataraja, Nirriti, Parjanya, Parvati, Paurnamasi, Prithivi, Purusha, Radha, Rati, Ratri, Rudra, Sanjna, Sati, Shashti, Shatala, Sitala (Satala), Skanda, Sunrta, Surya, Svasti-devi, Tvashtar, Uma, Urjani, Vach, Varuna, Vayu, Vishnu (Avatars of Vishnu: Matsya; Kurma; Varaha; Narasinha; Vamana; Parasurama; Rama; Krishna; Buddha; Kalki), Vishvakarman, Yama, Sraddha

Japan: Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone, Ama no Uzume, Ama-terasu, Amatsu Mikaboshi, Benten (Benzai-Ten), Bishamon, Chimata-No-Kami, Chup-Kamui, Daikoku, Ebisu, Emma-O, Fudo, Fuji, Fukurokuju, Gekka-O, Hachiman, Hettsui-No-Kami, Ho-Masubi, Hotei, Inari, Izanagi and Izanami, Jizo Bosatsu, Jurojin, Kagutsuchi, Kamado-No-Kami, Kami, Kawa-No-Kami, Kaya-Nu-Hima, Kishijoten, Kishi-Mojin, Kunitokotatchi, Marici, Monju-Bosatsu, Nai-No-Kami, No-Il Ja-Dae, O-Kuni-Nushi, Omoigane, Raiden, Shine-Tsu-Hiko, Shoten, Susa-no-wo, Tajika-no-mikoto, Tsuki-yomi, Uka no Mitanna, Uke-mochi, Uso-dori, Uzume, Wakahirume, Yainato-Hnneno-Mikoi, Yama-No-Kami, Yama-no-Karni, Yaya-Zakurai, Yuki-Onne

India

Agni, Ammavaru, Asuras, Banka-Mundi, Brihaspati, Budhi Pallien, Candi, Challalamma, Chinnintamma, Devas, Dyaush, Gauri-Sankar, Grhadevi, Gujeswari, Indra, Kali, Lohasur Devi, Mayavel, Mitra, Prajapati, Puchan, Purandhi, Rakshas, Rudrani, Rumina, Samundra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Siva (Shiva), Soma, Sura, Surabhi, Tulsi, Ushas, Vata, Visvamitra, Vivasvat, Vritra, Waghai Devi, Yaparamma, Yayu, Zumiang Nui, Diti

Other Asian: Dewi Shri, Po Yan Dari, Shuzanghu, Antaboga, Yakushi Nyorai, Mulhalmoni, Tankun, Yondung Halmoni, Aryong Jong, Quan Yin , Tengri, Uminai-gami, Kamado-No-Kami, Kunitokotatchi, Giri Devi, Dewi Nawang Sasih, Brag-srin-mo, Samanta-Bhadra, Sangs-rgyas-mkhá, Sengdroma, Sgeg-mo-ma, Tho-og, Ui Tango, Yum-chen-mo, Zas-ster-ma-dmar-mo, Chandra, Dyaus, Ratri, Rodasi, Vayu, Au-Co

African Gods, Demigods and First Men:

Abassi , Abuk , Adu Ogyinae , Agé , Agwe , Aida Wedo , Ajalamo, Aje, Ajok, Akonadi, Akongo, Akuj, Amma, Anansi, Asase Yaa, Ashiakle, Atai , Ayaba, Aziri, Baatsi, Bayanni, Bele Alua, Bomo rambi, Bosumabla, Buk, Buku, Bumba, Bunzi, Buruku, Cagn, Candit, Cghene, Coti, Damballah-Wedo, Dan, Deng, Domfe, Dongo, Edinkira, Efé, Egungun-oya, Eka Abassi, Elephant Girl Mbombe, Emayian, Enekpe, En-Kai, Eseasar, Eshu, Esu, Fa, Faran, Faro, Fatouma, Fidi Mukullu, Fon, Gleti, Gonzuole, Gû, Gua, Gulu, Gunab, Hammadi, Hêbiesso, Iku, Ilankaka, Imana, Iruwa, Isaywa, Juok, Kazooba, Khakaba, Khonvum, Kibuka, Kintu, Lebé, Leza, Libanza, Lituolone, Loko, Marwe, Massim Biambe, Mawu-Lisa (Leza), Mboze, Mebeli, Minepa, Moombi, Mukameiguru, Mukasa, Muluku, Mulungu, Mwambu, Nai, Nambi, Nana Buluku, Nanan-Bouclou, Nenaunir, Ng Ai, Nyaliep, Nyambé, Nyankopon, Nyasaye, Nzame, Oboto, Obumo, Odudua-Orishala, Ogun, Olokun, Olorun, Orisha Nla, Orunmila, Osanyin, Oshe, Osun, Oya, Phebele, Pokot-Suk, Ralubumbha, Rugaba, Ruhanga, Ryangombe, Sagbata, Shagpona, Shango, Sopona, Tano, Thixo, Tilo, Tokoloshi, Tsui, Tsui'goab, Umvelinqangi, Unkulunkulu, Utixo, Wak, Wamara, Wantu Su, Wele, Were, Woto, Xevioso, Yangombi, Yemonja, Ymoa, Ymoja, Yoruba, Zambi, Zanahary , Zinkibaru

Australian Gods, Goddesses and Places in the Dreamtime:

Alinga, Anjea, Apunga, Arahuta, Ariki, Arohirohi, Bamapana, Banaitja, Bara, Barraiya, Biame, Bila, Boaliri, Bobbi-bobbi, Bunbulama, Bunjil, Cunnembeille, Daramulum, Dilga, Djanggawul Sisters, Eingana, Erathipa, Gidja , Gnowee, Haumia, Hine Titama, Ingridi, Julana, Julunggul, Junkgowa, Karora, Kunapipi-Kalwadi-Kadjara, Lia, Madalait, Makara, Nabudi, Palpinkalare, Papa, Rangi, Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Tawhiri-ma-tea, Tomituka, Tu, Ungamilia, Walo, Waramurungundi, Wati Kutjarra, Wawalag Sisters, Wuluwaid, Wuragag, Wuriupranili, Wurrunna, Yhi

Buddhism, Gods and Relatives of God:

Aizen-Myoo, Ajima,Dai-itoku-Myoo, Fudo-Myoo, Gozanze-Myoo, Gundari-Myoo, Hariti, Kongo-Myoo, Kujaku-Myoo, Ni-O

Carribean: Gods, Monsters and Vodun Spirits

Agaman Nibo , Agwe, Agweta, Ah Uaynih, Aida Wedo , Atabei , Ayida , Ayizan, Azacca, Baron Samedi, Ulrich, Ellegua, Ogun, Ochosi, Chango, Itaba, Amelia, Christalline, Clairmé, Clairmeziné, Coatrischie, Damballah , Emanjah, Erzuli, Erzulie, Ezili, Ghede, Guabancex, Guabonito, Guamaonocon, Imanje, Karous, Laloue-diji, Legba, Loa, Loco, Maitresse Amelia , Mapiangueh, Marie-aimée, Marinette, Mombu, Marassa, Nana Buruku, Oba, Obtala, Ochu, Ochumare, Oddudua, Ogoun, Olokum, Olosa, Oshun, Oya, Philomena, Sirêne, The Diablesse, Itaba, Tsilah, Ursule, Vierge, Yemaya , Zaka

Celtic: Gods, Goddesses, Divine Kings and Pagan Saints

Abarta, Abna, Abnoba, Aine, Airetech,Akonadi, Amaethon, Ameathon, An Cailleach, Andraste, Antenociticus, Aranrhod, Arawn, Arianrod, Artio, Badb,Balor, Banbha, Becuma, Belatucadros, Belatu-Cadros, Belenus, Beli,Belimawr, Belinus, Bendigeidfran, Bile, Blathnat, Blodeuwedd, Boann, Bodus,Bormanus, Borvo, Bran, Branwen, Bres, Brigid, Brigit, Caridwen, Carpantus,Cathbadh, Cecht, Cernach, Cernunnos, Cliodna, Cocidius, Conchobar, Condatis, Cormac,Coronus,Cosunea, Coventina, Crarus,Creidhne, Creirwy, Cu Chulainn, Cu roi, Cuda, Cuill,Cyhiraeth,Dagda, Damona, Dana, Danu, D'Aulnoy,Dea Artio, Deirdre , Dewi, Dian, Diancecht, Dis Pater, Donn, Dwyn, Dylan, Dywel,Efnisien, Elatha, Epona, Eriu, Esos, Esus, Eurymedon,Fedelma, Fergus, Finn, Fodla, Goewyn, Gog, Goibhniu, Govannon , Grainne, Greine,Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd, Herne, Hu'Gadarn, Keltoi,Keridwen, Kernunnos,Ler, Lir, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Lludd, Llyr, Llywy, Luchta, Lug, Lugh,Lugus, Mabinogion,Mabon, Mac Da Tho, Macha, Magog, Manannan, Manawydan, Maponos, Math, Math Ap Mathonwy, Medb, Moccos,Modron, Mogons, Morrig, Morrigan, Nabon,Nantosuelta, Naoise, Nechtan, Nedoledius,Nehalennia, Nemhain, Net,Nisien, Nodens, Noisi, Nuada, Nwywre,Oengus, Ogma, Ogmios, Oisin, Pach,Partholon, Penard Dun, Pryderi, Pwyll, Rhiannon, Rosmerta, Samhain, Segidaiacus, Sirona, Sucellus, Sulis, Taliesin, Taranis, Teutates, The Horned One,The Hunt, Treveni,Tyne, Urien, Ursula of the Silver Host, Vellaunus, Vitiris, White Lady

Egyptian: Gods, Gods Incarnate and Personified Divine Forces:

Amaunet, Amen, Amon, Amun, Anat, Anqet, Antaios, Anubis, Anuket, Apep, Apis, Astarte, Aten, Aton, Atum, Bastet, Bat, Buto, Duamutef, Duamutef, Hapi, Har-pa-khered, Hathor, Hauhet, Heket, Horus, Huh, Imset, Isis, Kauket, Kebechsenef, Khensu, Khepri, Khnemu, Khnum, Khonsu, Kuk, Maahes, Ma'at, Mehen, Meretseger, Min, Mnewer, Mut, Naunet, Nefertem, Neith, Nekhbet, Nephthys, Nun, Nut, Osiris, Ptah, Ra , Re, Renenet, Sakhmet, Satet, Seb, Seker, Sekhmet, Serapis, Serket, Set, Seth, Shai, Shu, Shu, Sia, Sobek, Sokar, Tefnut, Tem, Thoth

Hellenes (Greek) Tradition (Gods, Demigods, Divine Bastards)

Acidalia, Aello, Aesculapius, Agathe, Agdistis, Ageleia, Aglauros, Agne, Agoraia, Agreia, Agreie, Agreiphontes, Agreus, Agrios, Agrotera, Aguieus, Aidoneus, Aigiokhos, Aigletes, Aigobolos, Ainia,Ainippe, Aithuia , Akesios, Akraia, Aktaios, Alalkomene, Alasiotas, Alcibie, Alcinoe, Alcippe, Alcis,Alea, Alexikakos, Aligena, Aliterios, Alkaia, Amaltheia, Ambidexter, Ambologera, Amynomene,Anaduomene, Anaea, Anax, Anaxilea, Androdameia,Andromache, Andromeda, Androphonos, Anosia, Antandre,Antania, Antheus, Anthroporraistes, Antianara, Antianeira, Antibrote, Antimache, Antimachos, Antiope,Antiopeia, Aoide, Apatouria, Aphneius, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apotropaios, Areia, Areia, Areion, Areopagite, Ares, Areto, Areximacha,Argus, Aridnus,Aristaios, Aristomache, Arkhegetes, Arktos, Arretos, Arsenothelys, Artemis, Asclepius, Asklepios, Aspheleios, Asteria, Astraeos , Athene, Auxites, Avaris, Axios, Axios Tauros,Bakcheios, Bakchos, Basileus, Basilis, Bassareus, Bauros, Boophis, Boreas , Botryophoros, Boukeros, Boulaia, Boulaios, Bremusa,Bromios, Byblis,Bythios, Caliope, Cedreatis, Celaneo, centaur, Cerberus, Charidotes, Charybdis, Chimera, Chloe, Chloris , Choreutes, Choroplekes, Chthonios, Clete, Clio, clotho,Clyemne, cockatrice, Crataeis, Custos, Cybebe, Cybele, Cyclops, Daphnaia, Daphnephoros, Deianeira, Deinomache, Delia, Delios, Delphic, Delphinios, Demeter, Dendrites, Derimacheia,Derinoe, Despoina, Dikerotes, Dimeter, Dimorphos, Dindymene, Dioktoros, Dionysos, Discordia, Dissotokos, Dithyrambos, Doris, Dryope,Echephyle,Echidna, Eiraphiotes, Ekstatophoros, Eleemon, Eleuthereus, Eleutherios, Ennosigaios, Enodia, Enodios, Enoplios, Enorches, Enualios, Eos , Epaine, Epidotes, Epikourios, Epipontia, Epitragidia, Epitumbidia, Erato, Ergane, Eribromios, Erigdoupos, Erinus, Eriobea, Eriounios, Eriphos, Eris, Eros,Euanthes, Euaster, Eubouleus, Euboulos, Euios, Eukhaitos, Eukleia, Eukles, Eumache, Eunemos, Euplois, Euros , Eurybe,Euryleia, Euterpe, Fates,Fortuna, Gaia, Gaieokhos, Galea, Gamelia, Gamelios, Gamostolos, Genetor, Genetullis, Geryon, Gethosynos, giants, Gigantophonos, Glaukopis, Gorgons, Gorgopis, Graiae, griffin, Gynaikothoinas, Gynnis, Hagisilaos, Hagnos, Haides, Harmothoe, harpy, Hegemone, Hegemonios, Hekate, Hekatos, Helios, Hellotis, Hephaistia, Hephaistos, Hera, Heraios, Herakles, Herkeios, Hermes, Heros Theos, Hersos, Hestia, Heteira, Hiksios, Hipp, Hippia, Hippios, Hippoi Athanatoi, Hippolyte, Hippolyte II,Hippomache,Hippothoe, Horkos, Hugieia, Hupatos, Hydra, Hypate, Hyperborean, Hypsipyle, Hypsistos, Iakchos, Iatros, Idaia, Invictus, Iphito,Ismenios, Ismenus,Itonia, Kabeiria, Kabeiroi, Kakia, Kallinikos, Kallipugos, Kallisti, Kappotas, Karneios, Karpophoros, Karytis, Kataibates, Katakhthonios, Kathatsios, Keladeine, Keraunos, Kerykes, Khalinitis, Khalkioikos, Kharmon, Khera, Khloe, Khlori,Khloris,Khruse, Khthonia, Khthonios, Kidaria, Kissobryos, Kissokomes, Kissos, Kitharodos, Kleidouchos, Kleoptoleme, Klymenos, Kore, Koruthalia, Korymbophoros, Kourotrophos, Kranaia, Kranaios, Krataiis, Kreousa, Kretogenes, Kriophoros, Kronides, Kronos,Kryphios, Ktesios, Kubebe, Kupris, Kuprogenes, Kurotrophos, Kuthereia, Kybele, Kydoime,Kynthia, Kyrios, Ladon, Lakinia, Lamia, Lampter, Laodoke, Laphria, Lenaios, Leukatas, Leukatas, Leukolenos, Leukophruene, Liknites, Limenia, Limnaios, Limnatis, Logios, Lokhia, Lousia, Loxias, Lukaios, Lukeios, Lyaios, Lygodesma, Lykopis, Lyseus, Lysippe, Maimaktes, Mainomenos, Majestas, Makar, Maleatas, Manikos, Mantis, Marpe, Marpesia, Medusa, Megale, Meilikhios, Melaina, Melainis, Melanaigis, Melanippe,Melete, Melousa, Melpomene, Melqart, Meses, Mimnousa, Minotaur, Mneme, Molpadia,Monogenes, Morpho, Morychos, Musagates, Musagetes, Nebrodes, Nephelegereta, Nereus,Nete, Nike, Nikephoros, Nomios, Nomius, Notos , Nyktelios, Nyktipolos, Nympheuomene, Nysios, Oiketor, Okyale, Okypous, Olumpios, Omadios, Ombrios, Orithia,Orius,Ortheia, Orthos, Ourania, Ourios, Paelemona, Paian, Pais, Palaios, Pallas, Pan Megas, Panakhais, Pandemos, Pandrosos, Pantariste, Parthenos, PAsianax, Pasiphaessa, Pater, Pater, Patroo s, Pegasus, Pelagia, Penthesilea, Perikionios, Persephone, Petraios, Phanes, Phanter, Phatria, Philios, Philippis, Philomeides, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoenix, Phoibos, Phosphoros, Phratrios, Phutalmios, Physis, Pisto, Plouton, Polemusa,Poliakhos, Polias, Polieus, Polumetis, Polydektes, Polygethes, Polymnia, Polymorphos, Polyonomos, Porne, Poseidon, Potnia Khaos, Potnia Pheron, Promakhos, Pronoia, Propulaios, Propylaia, Proserpine, Prothoe, Protogonos, Prytaneia, Psychopompos, Puronia, Puthios, Pyrgomache, Python, Rhea, Sabazios, Salpinx, satyr, Saxanus, Scyleia,Scylla, sirens, Skeptouchos, Smintheus, Sophia, Sosipolis, Soter, Soteria, Sphinx, Staphylos, Sthenias, Sthenios, Strife, Summakhia, Sykites, Syzygia, Tallaios, Taureos, Taurokeros, Taurophagos, Tauropolos, Tauropon, Tecmessa, Teisipyte, Teleios, Telepyleia,Teletarches, Terpsichore, Thalestris, Thalia, The Dioskouroi, Theos, Theritas, Thermodosa, Thraso, Thyonidas, Thyrsophoros, Tmolene, Toxaris, Toxis, Toxophile,Trevia, Tricephalus, Trieterikos, Trigonos, Trismegestos, Tritogeneia, Tropaios, Trophonius,Tumborukhos, Tyche, Typhon, Urania, Valasca, Xanthippe, Xenios, Zagreus, Zathos, Zephryos , Zeus, Zeus Katakhthonios, Zoophoros Topana

Native American: Gods, Heroes, and Anthropomorphized Facets of Nature

Aakuluujjusi, Ab Kin zoc, Abaangui , Ababinili , Ac Yanto, Acan, Acat, Achiyalatopa , Acna, Acolmiztli, Acolnahuacatl, Acuecucyoticihuati, Adamisil Wedo, Adaox , Adekagagwaa , Adlet , Adlivun, Agloolik , Aguara , Ah Bolom Tzacab, Ah Cancum, Ah Chun Caan, Ah Chuy Kak, Ah Ciliz, Ah Cun Can, Ah Cuxtal, Ah hulneb, Ah Kin, Ah Kumix Uinicob, Ah Mun, Ah Muzencab, Ah Patnar Uinicob, Ah Peku, Ah Puch, Ah Tabai, Ah UincirDz'acab, Ah Uuc Ticab, Ah Wink-ir Masa, Ahau Chamahez, Ahau-Kin, Ahmakiq, Ahnt Alis Pok', Ahnt Kai', Aholi , Ahsonnutli , Ahuic, Ahulane, Aiauh, Aipaloovik , Ajbit, Ajilee , Ajtzak, Akbaalia , Akba-atatdia , Akhlut , Akhushtal, Akna , Akycha, Alaghom Naom Tzentel, Albino Spirit animals , Alektca , Alignak, Allanque , Allowat Sakima , Alom, Alowatsakima , Amaguq , Amala , Amimitl, Amitolane, Amotken , Andaokut , Andiciopec , Anerneq , Anetlacualtiliztli, Angalkuq , Angpetu Wi, Anguta, Angwusnasomtaka , Ani Hyuntikwalaski , Animal spirits , Aningan, Aniwye , Anog Ite , Anpao, Apanuugak , Apicilnic , Apikunni , Apotamkin , Apoyan Tachi , Apozanolotl, Apu Punchau, Aqalax , Arendiwane , Arnakua'gsak , Asdiwal , Asgaya Gigagei, Asiaq , Asin , Asintmah, Atacokai , Atahensic, Aticpac Calqui Cihuatl, Atira, Atisokan , Atius Tirawa , Atl, Atlacamani, Atlacoya, Atlatonin, Atlaua, Atshen , Auilix, Aulanerk , Aumanil , Aunggaak , Aunt Nancy , Awaeh Yegendji , Awakkule , Awitelin Tsta , Awonawilona, Ayauhteotl, Azeban, Baaxpee , Bacabs, Backlum Chaam, Bagucks , Bakbakwalanooksiwae , Balam, Baldhead , Basamacha , Basket Woman , Bead Spitter , Bear , Bear Medicine Woman , Bear Woman , Beaver , Beaver Doctor , Big Heads, Big Man Eater , Big Tail , Big Twisted Flute , Bikeh hozho, Bitol, Black Hactcin , Black Tamanous , Blind Boy , Blind Man , Blood Clot Boy , Bloody Hand , Blue-Jay , Bmola , Bolontiku, Breathmaker, Buffalo , Buluc Chabtan, Burnt Belly , Burnt Face , Butterfly , Cabaguil, Cacoch, Cajolom, Cakulha, Camaxtli, Camozotz, Cannibal Grandmother , Cannibal Woman , Canotila , Capa , Caprakan, Ca-the-ña, Cauac, Centeotl, Centzonuitznaua, Cetan , Chac Uayab Xoc, Chac, Chahnameed , Chakwaina Okya, Chalchihuitlicue, Chalchiuhtlatonal, Chalchiutotolin, Chalmecacihuilt, Chalmecatl, Chamer, Changing Bear Woman , Changing Woman , Chantico, Chaob, Charred Body , Chepi , Chibiabos ,Chibirias, Chiccan, Chicomecoatl, Chicomexochtli, Chiconahui, Chiconahuiehecatl, Chie, Child-Born-in-Jug , Chirakan, Chulyen , Cihuacoatl, Cin-an-ev , Cinteotl, Cipactli, Cirapé , Cit Chac Coh, Cit-Bolon-Tum, Citlalatonac, Citlalicue, Ciucoatl, Ciuteoteo, Cizin, Cliff ogre , Coatlicue, Cochimetl, Cocijo, Colel Cab, Colop U Uichkin, Copil, Coyolxauhqui, Coyopa, Coyote , Cripple Boy , Crow , Crow Woman , Cum hau, Cunawabi , Dagwanoenyent , Dahdahwat , Daldal , Deohako, Dhol , Diyin dine , Djien , Djigonasee , Dohkwibuhch , Dzalarhons , Dzalarhons, Eagentci , Eagle , Earth Shaman , Eeyeekalduk , Ehecatl, Ehlaumel , Eithinoha , Ekchuah, Enumclaw , Eototo, Esaugetuh Emissee , Esceheman, Eschetewuarha, Estanatlehi , Estasanatlehi , Estsanatlehi, Evaki, Evening Star, Ewah , Ewauna, Face , Faces of the Forests , False Faces , Famine , Fastachee , Fire Dogs , First Creator , First Man and First Woman, First Scolder , Flint Man , Flood , Flower Woman , Foot Stuck Child , Ga'an, Ga-gaah , Gahe, Galokwudzuwis , Gaoh, Gawaunduk, Geezhigo-Quae, Gendenwitha, Genetaska, Ghanan, Gitche Manitou, Glispa, Glooskap , Gluscabi , Gluskab , Gluskap, Godasiyo, Gohone , Great Seahouse, Greenmantle , Gucumatz, Gukumatz, Gunnodoyak, Gyhldeptis, Ha Wen Neyu , Hacauitz , Hacha'kyum, Hagondes , Hahgwehdiyu , Hamatsa , Hamedicu, Hanghepi Wi, Hantceiitehi , Haokah , Hastseoltoi, Hastshehogan , He'mask.as , Hen, Heyoka , Hiawatha , Hino, Hisakitaimisi, Hokhokw , Hotoru, Huehuecoyotl, Huehueteotl, Huitaca , Huitzilopochtli, Huixtocihuatl, Hummingbird, Hun hunahpu, Hun Pic Tok, Hunab Ku, Hunahpu Utiu, Hunahpu, Hunahpu-Gutch, Hunhau, Hurakan, Iatiku And Nautsiti, Ich-kanava , Ictinike , Idliragijenget , Idlirvirisong, Igaluk , Ignirtoq , Ikanam , Iktomi , Ilamatecuhtli, Illapa, Ilya p'a, i'noGo tied , Inti, Inua , Ioskeha , Ipalnemohuani, Isakakate, Ishigaq , Isitoq , Issitoq , Ite , Itzamná, Itzananohk`u, Itzlacoliuhque, Itzli, Itzpapalotl, Ix Chebel Yax, Ixbalanque, Ixchel, Ixchup, Ixmucane, Ixpiyacoc, Ixtab, Ixtlilton, Ixtubtin, Ixzaluoh, Iya , Iyatiku , Iztaccihuatl, Iztacmixcohuatl, Jaguar Night, Jaguar Quitze, Jogah , Kaakwha , Kabun , Kabun , Kachinas, Kadlu , Ka-Ha-Si , Ka-Ha-Si , Kaik , Kaiti , Kan, Kana'ti and Selu , Kanati, Kan-u-Uayeyab, Kan-xib-yui, Kapoonis , Katsinas, Keelut , Ketchimanetowa, Ketq Skwaye, Kianto, Kigatilik , Kilya, K'in, Kinich Ahau, Kinich Kakmo, Kishelemukong , Kisin, Kitcki Manitou, Kmukamch , Kokopelli , Ko'lok , Kukulcan, Kushapatshikan , Kutni , Kutya'I , Kwakwakalanooksiwae ,Kwatee , Kwekwaxa'we , Kwikumat , Kyoi , Lagua , Land Otter People , Lawalawa , Logobola , Loha, Lone Man , Long Nose , Loon , Loon Medicine , Loon Woman , Loo-wit, Macaw Woman, Macuilxochitl, Maho Peneta, Mahucutah, Makenaima , Malesk , Malina , Malinalxochi, Malsum, Malsumis , Mam, Mama Cocha, Man in moon , Manabozho , Manetuwak , Mani'to, Manitou , Mannegishi , Manu, Masaya, Masewi , Master of Life , Master Of Winds, Matshishkapeu , Mavutsinim , Mayahuel, Medeoulin , Mekala , Menahka, Meteinuwak , Metztli, Mexitl, Michabo, Mictecacihuatl, Mictlan, Mictlantecuhtli, Mikchich , Mikumwesu , Mitnal, Mixcoatl, Mongwi Kachinum , Morning Star, Motho and Mungo , Mulac, Muut , Muyingwa , Nacon, Nagenatzani, Nagi Tanka , Nagual, Nahual, Nakawé, Nanabojo, Nanabozho , Nanabush, Nanahuatzin, Nanautzin, Nanih Waiya, Nankil'slas , Nanook , Naum, Negafook , Nerrivik , Nesaru, Nianque , Nishanu , Nohochacyum, Nokomis, Nootaikok , North Star, Nujalik , Nukatem , Nunne Chaha , Ocasta, Ockabewis, Odzihozo , Ohtas , Oklatabashih, Old Man , Olelbis, Omacatl, Omecihuatl, Ometecuhtli, Onatha , One Tail of Clear Hair , Oonawieh Unggi , Opochtli, Oshadagea, Owl Woman , Pah , Pah, Paiowa, Pakrokitat , Pana , Patecatl, Pautiwa, Paynal, Pemtemweha , Piasa , Pikváhahirak , Pinga , Pomola , Pot-tilter , Prairie Falcon , Ptehehincalasanwin , Pukkeenegak , Qaholom, Qakma, Qiqirn , Quaoar , Quetzalcoatl, Qumu , Quootis-hooi, Rabbit, Ragno, Raven, Raw Gums , Rukko, Sagamores , Sagapgia , Sanopi , Saynday , Sedna, Selu, Shakuru, Sharkura, Shilup Chito Osh, Shrimp house, Sila , Sint Holo , Sio humis, Sisiutl , Skan , Snallygaster , Sosondowah , South Star, Spider Woman , Sta-au , Stonecoats , Sun, Sungrey , Ta Tanka , Tabaldak , Taime , Taiowa , Talocan, Tans , Taqwus , Tarhuhyiawahku, Tarquiup Inua , Tate , Tawa, Tawiscara, Ta'xet , Tcisaki , Tecciztecatl, Tekkeitserktock, Tekkeitsertok , Telmekic , Teoyaomqui, Tepeu, Tepeyollotl, Teteoinnan, Tezcatlipoca, Thobadestchin, Thoume', Thunder , Thunder Bird , Tieholtsodi, Tihtipihin , Tirawa , Tirawa Atius, Tlacolotl, Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli, Tlaloc, Tlaltecuhtli, Tlauixcalpantecuhtli, Tlazolteotl, Tohil, Tokpela ,Tonantzin , Tonatiuh, To'nenile, Tonenili , Tootega , Torngasak, Torngasoak , Trickster/Transformer , True jaguar, Tsentsa, Tsichtinako, Tsohanoai Tsonoqwa , Tsul 'Kalu , Tulugaak , Tumas , Tunkan ingan, Turquoise Boy , Twin Thunder Boys, Txamsem , Tzakol, Tzitzimime, Uazzale , Uchtsiti, Udó , Uentshukumishiteu , Ueuecoyotl, Ugly Way , Ugni , Uhepono , Uitzilopochtli, Ukat , Underwater Panthers , Unhcegila , Unipkaat , Unk, Unktomi , Untunktahe , Urcaguary, Utea , Uwashil , Vassagijik , Voltan, Wabosso , Wabun , Wachabe, Wah-Kah-Nee, Wakan , Wakanda , Wakan-Tanka, Wakinyan , Wan niomi , Wanagi , Wananikwe , Watavinewa , Water babies , Waukheon , We-gyet , Wemicus , Wendigo , Wentshukumishiteu , White Buffalo Woman, Whope , Wi , Wicahmunga , Wihmunga , Windigo, Winonah, Wisagatcak , Wisagatcak, Wishpoosh , Wiyot , Wovoka , Wuya , Xaman Ek, Xelas , Xibalba, Xilonen, Xipe Totec, Xiuhcoatl, Xiuhtecuhtli, Xiuhtecutli, Xmucane, Xochipili , Xochiquetzal, Xocotl, Xolotl, Xpiyacoc, Xpuch And Xtah, Yacatecuhtli, Yaluk, Yanauluha , Ya-o-gah , Yeba Ka, Yebaad, Yehl , Yeitso, Yiacatecuhtli, Yolkai Estsan, Yoskeha , Yum Kaax, Yuwipi , Zaramama, Zipaltonal, Zotz

Norse Deities, Giants and Monsters:

Aegir, Aesir, Alfrigg, Audumbla, Aurgelmir, Balder, Berchta, Bergelmir, Bor, Bragi, Brisings, Buri, Etin, Fenris, Forseti, Frey, Freyja, Frigga, Gefion, Gerda, Gode, Gymir, Harke, Heimdall, Hel, Hermod, Hodur, Holda, Holle, Honir, Hymir, Idun, Jormungandr, Ljolsalfs, Loki, Magni, Mimir, Mistarblindi, Muspel, Nanna, Nanni, Nerthus, Njord, Norns, Odin, Perchta, Ran, Rig, Segyn, Sif, Skadi, Skirnir, Skuld, Sleipnir, Surt, Svadilfari, tanngniotr, tanngrisnr, Thiassi, Thor, Thrud, Thrudgelmir, Thrym, Thurs, Tyr, Uller, Urd, Vali, Vali, Valkyries, Vanir, Ve, Verdandi, Vidar, Wode, Ymir

Pacific islands: Deities, Demigods and Immortal Monsters:

Abeguwo, Abere, Adaro, Afekan, Ai Tupua'i, 'Aiaru, Ala Muki, Alalahe, Alii Menehune, Aluluei, Aruaka, Asin, Atanea, Audjal, Aumakua, Babamik, Bakoa, Barong, Batara Kala, Buring Une, Darago, Dayang-Raca, De Ai, Dogai, Enda Semangko, Faumea, Giriputri, Goga, Haumea, Hiiaka', Hina, Hine, Hoa-Tapu, 'Imoa, Io, Kanaloa, Kanaloa, Kane, Kapo, Kava, Konori, Ku, Kuhuluhulumanu, Kuklikimoku, Kukoae, Ku'ula, Laka, Laulaati, Lono, Mahiuki, MakeMake, Marruni, Maru, Maui, Melu, Menehune, Moeuhane, MOO-LAU, Ndauthina, Ne Te-reere, Nevinbimbaau, Ngendei, Nobu, Oro, Ove, Paka'a, Papa, Pele, Quat, Rangi, Rati, Rati-mbati-ndua, Ratu-Mai-Mbula, Rua, Ruahatu, Saning Sri, Ta'aroa, Taaroa, Tamakaia, Tane, Tanemahuta, Tangaroa, Tawhaki, Tiki, Tinirau, Tu, Tuli, Turi-a-faumea, Uira, Ukupanipo, Ulupoka, Umboko Indra, Vanuatu, Wahini-Hal, Walutahanga, Wari-Ma-Te-Takere, Whaitiri, Whatu, Wigan

South American: Deities, Demigods, Beings of Divine Substance:

Abaangui, Aclla, Akewa, Asima Si, Atoja, Auchimalgen, Axomama, Bachué, Beru, Bochica, Boiuna, Calounger, Catequil, Cavillaca, Ceiuci, Chasca, Chie, Cocomama, Gaumansuri, Huitaca, Iae, Ilyap'a, Ina, Inti, Ituana, Jamaina , Jandira, Jarina, Jubbu-jang-sangne, Ka-ata-killa, Kilya, Kuat, Kun, Luandinha, Lupi, Mama Allpa, Mama Quilla, Mamacocha, Manco Capac, Maret-Jikky, Maretkhmakniam, Mariana, Oshossi, Pachamac, Pachamama, Perimbó, Rainha Barba, Si, Supai, Topétine, Viracocha, Yemanja (Imanje), Zume

Submitted May 28, 2023 at 04:42PM by dreamer100__ (From Reddit https://ift.tt/uTlQcN4)

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For the "unrecommend a book" ask: Don't read The Last Empress by Hannah Pakula (a biography of Chiang Kai-shek's wife Soong Mei-ling). I enjoy historical biographies and have an interest in Chinese history, so this seemed like a good pick when I got it at a used bookstore a couple months ago. Got through about 60 pages of it before giving up. Author treats the reader like they've never heard of China before and overexplains the idea of everything from "there was an emperor they thought he was like a god" to Chinese characters to "the family name comes first when writing Chinese names." It's written through this weird honestly kind of Orientalist lens. I'm not Chinese but I feel like if I was Chinese I'd be even more annoyed. If someone is picking up this book... they probably know what they're getting into!! It's a biography of a specific historical figure! So why write it this way, seemingly trying to cater to a hypothetical American-everyman (and not even doing it well)? sorry for just using this prompt as an excuse to complain about a book you never planned on reading anyway lol

Oh no that sounds like torture, and I also love reading angry rants about subjects I've never heard of.

[jondalars]

movies, tv shows, and books of 2023

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Bride of the Water God (s1)

Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know by Cyan Wings

Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating by Jiang Zi Bei

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Claim to Fame (s2)

Beyond Evil (s1)

The Legend of Anle (s1)

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Doom at Your Service (s1)

Jade War by Fonda Lee

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

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Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

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The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter

The Out-Laws (2023)

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Heaven Official's Blessing (vol. 7) by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

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X (2022)

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The Green Knight (2021)

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Deathless by Catherynne M Valente *

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Tune in for Love (2019)

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Supervisor Husband (s1)

Aftersun (2022)

[crazy-so-na-sega]

L'attacco Giapponese alla base navale degli Stati Uniti nel bel mezzo dell'Oceano Pacifico di Pearl Harbor venne eseguito il 7 dicembre del 1941. Ormai è acclarato da molteplici fonti ufficiali e documenti desecretati che, l'attacco era noto ai comandi militari americani che lo permisero anzi, in qualche modo lo propiziarono, per spingere l'opinione pubblica a sostenere l'amministrazione e supportare l'entrata in guerra.

Nell'aprile del 1937 il Capitano in pensione Claire L. Chennault venne inviato in missione dal Governo degli Stati Uniti in Cina da Song Meiling, meglio conosciuta come la Signora Chiang Kai-shek o Chiang Mei-ling, moglie del Presidente della Repubblica di Cina Il motivo era che Song Meiling era stata designata e messa a capo di una apposita Commissione per gli Affari Aeronautici proprio per rivoluzionare e modernizzare l'intero settore militare aereo della Cina ormai prossima alla guerra aperta contro il Giappone.

L'ex Capitano Chennault non solo fu un solerte consulente militare della Signora Chiang Kai-Shek ma procacciò numerose commesse per la Curtis e per l'acquisto di numerosi aeromobili da fornire alla Cina Infine formò e curò personalmente, per conto del Governo degli Stati Uniti, la nascita delle Tigri Volanti, un gruppo "segreto" di piloti americani inviati in Cina con il preciso scopo di bombardare i Giapponesi al fianco della ROCAF, l'Aeronautica della Repubblica di Cina.

Quello fu l'inizio delle avventure tra le nuvole del Giappone dell'aeronautica degli Stati Uniti... quindi ben prima del 7 dicembre 1941 La fine di quelle avventure fu nell'agosto del 1945 con il bombardamento di Hiroshima e Nagasaki preceduto dal bombardamento di circa altre 60-100 importanti città giapponesi. La maggior parte delle case di quel tempo in Giappone erano case di legno. Gli Stati Uniti soppressero prima i principali sistemi contraerei dopodiché eseguirono una serie di bombardamenti con bombe incendiarie per creare un vero inferno di fuoco con la legna delle casette giapponesi.

La stima di morti civili arriva a circa 900.000 persone bruciate vive Tutti ricordano l'infame bombardamento della città di Dresda dove le stime parlano di 30.000-50.000 morti. Ma il più sanguinoso attacco aereo con armamento convenzionale dell'intera storia, fu quello compiuto dall'aviazione americana il 10 marzo del 1945 sul distretto di Shitamachi a Tokyo dove furono impiegati 334 B-29 i quali, volando a soli 150 metri dal suolo e con l'impiego di un loro munizionamento incendiario speciale costituito da una miscela di napalm e forforo bianco, causarono la morte di 90.000-130.000 persone.

Quest'ultimo fu l'unico e vero motivo per cui non vennero sganciate le atomiche su Tokyo Non sarebbe stato un chiaro esempio per il mondo intero della potenza distruttiva delle nuove bombe atomiche americane "... Mantieni il Giappone in guerra per altri tre mesi e potremo usare la bomba sulle loro città. Porremo fine a questa guerra con la nuda paura di tutti i popoli del mondo che poi si piegheranno alla nostra volontà” - John Foster Dulles, maggio 1945 Palace Hotel San Francisco - p.s.: John Foster Dulles tra le altre cose, aiutò a preparare la Carta delle Nazioni Unite a Dumbarton Oaks e nel 1945 servì come consulente senior alla conferenza di San Francisco che anticipò la fondazione dell'ONU Fu anche precursore e fervente sostenitore della nascita della NATO Insomma, un autentico gentiluomo E direi anche, infine, che la Storia doveva essere riscritta.... il perché, mi pare del tutto evidente

-Luperco

Ragion di Stato che accomuna tutti.

[mysymmetry]

2023 Reading List updated Jan 8 March 13 April 10 May 29 July 5

Read So Far: Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion All of This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankham Matthews Readme.txt, Chelsea Manning The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, Stuart Ross Burntcoat, Sarah Hall The Best American Essays 2022, ed. Alexander Chee Easy Beauty, Chloe Cooper Jones Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso Son of Elsewhere, Elamin Abdelmahmoud Happy Place, Emily Henry Couplets, Maggie Millner Strange Loops, Elizabeth Harmer Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Currently Reading: Tides, Sara Freeman (lib yes - placed hold) Ace, Angela Chen (lib yes - placed hold) Ripe, Sarah Rose Etter Pathological, Sarah Fay Biography of X, Catherine Lacey The Best American Poetry 2019, ed. Bliss Montage, Ling Ma The Carrying, Ada Limon Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon A Single Rose, Muriel Barbery The Power of Geography

Want to Read: Foster or Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (lib yes for both, recom from bookseller at Different Drummer!) The Light Room, Kate Zambreno No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood Lurch, Don McKay No Archive Will Destroy You, Julietta Singh The Story of Our Lives, Ted Chiang

HALF FINISHED The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Animal Person, Alexander MacLeod My Face in The Light, Martha Schabas Pure Colour, Sheila Heti Satched, Megan Gail Coles A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes The Country of Marriage, Wendell Berry

Minique, Anna Maxymiw We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, Tsering Yangzom Lama Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

[omg-lucio]

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), Primera Dama de la República de China, llega al Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles, California. 3 de mayo de 1943

[magicwingslisten]

The Red Cliff I   In the autumn of the year jen-hsü (1082), on the sixteenth day of the seventh month, I took some guests on an excursion by boat under the Red Cliff. A cool wind blew gently, without starting a ripple. I raised my cup to pledge the guests; and we chanted the Full Moon ode, and sang out the verse about the modest lady. After a while the moon came up above the hills to the east, and wandered between the Dipper and the Herdboy Star; a dewy whiteness spanned the river, merging the light on the water into the sky. We let the tiny reed drift on its course, over ten thousand acres of dissolving surface which streamed to the horizon, as though we were leaning on the void with the winds for chariot, on a journey none knew where, hovering above as though we had left the world of men behind us and risen as immortals on newly sprouted wings.   Soon, when the wines we drank had made us merry, we sang this verse tapping the gunwales:                      Cinnamon oars in front, magnolia oars behind                    Beat the transparent brightness, thrust upstream against                              flooding light.                    So far, the one I yearn for,                    The girl up there at the other end of the sky!   One of the guests accompanied the song on a flute. The notes were like sobs, as though he were complaining, longing, weeping, accusing; the wavering resonance lingered, a thread of sound which did not snap off, till the dragons underwater danced in the black depths, and a widow wept in our lonely boat.   I solemnly straightened my lapels, sat up stiffly, and asked the guest: “Why do you play like this?”   The guest answered:   “’Full moon, stars few Rooks and magpies fly south…’   “Was it not Ts’ao Ts’ao who wrote this verse? Gazing toward Hsia-k’ou in the west, Wu-ch’ang in the east, mountains and river winding around him, stifling in the close green…was it not here that Ts’ao Ts’ao was hemmed in by young Chou? At the time when he smote Ching-chou and came eastwards with the current down from Chiang-ling, his vessels were prow by stern for a thousand miles, his banners hid the sky; looking down on the river, winecup in hand, composing his poem with lance slung crossways, truly he was the hero of his age, but where is he now? And what are you and I compared with him? Fishermen and woodcutters on the river’s isles, with fish and shrimps and deer for mates, riding a boat as shallow as a leaf, pouring each other drinks from bottlegourds; mayflies visiting between heaven and earth, infinitesimal grains in the vast sea, mourning the passing of our instant of life, envying the long river which never ends! Let me cling to a flying immortal and roam far off, and live for ever with the full moon in my arms! But knowing that this art is not easily learned, I commit the fading echoes to the sad wind.”   “Have you really understood the water and the moon?” I said. “The one streams past so swiftly yet is never gone; the other for ever waxes and wanes yet finally has never grown nor diminished. For if you look at the aspect which changes, heaven and earth cannot last for one blink; but if you look at the aspect which is changeless, the worlds within and outside you are both inexhaustible, and what reasons have you to envy anything?   “Moreover, each thing between heaven and earth has its owner, and even one hair which is not mine I can never make part of me. Only the cool wind on the river, or the full moon in the mountains, caught by the ear becomes a sound, or met by the eye changes to color; no one forbids me to make it mine, no limit is set to the use of it; this is the inexhaustible treasury of the creator of things, and you and I can share in the joy of it.”   The guest smiled, consoled. We washed the cups and poured more wine. After the nuts and savories were finished, and the winecups and dishes lay scattered around, we leaned pillowed back to back in the middle of the boat, and did not notice when the sky turned white in the east.

The Red Cliff II   In the same year, on the fifteenth of the tenth month, I went on foot from Snow Hall on my way back to Lin-kao, accompanied by two guests. When we passed the slope of Huang-ni the frost and dew had fallen already. The trees were stripped of leaves, our shadows were on the ground; we looked up at the full moon, enjoyed its radiance around us; and as we walked we took turns to sing. At last I said with a sigh:   “I have guests but no wine; and if I did have wine there would be nothing to eat with it. The moon is white and the wind is cool; what shall we do on a fine night like this?”   “Today at twilight,” a guest said, “I went out with a net and caught some fish with big mouths and little scales; they look like the perch of Pine River. But where shall we get wine?”   After we reached home I consulted my wife.   “I have a quart of wine,” she said. “I have been keeping it for a long time, in case you needed it in some emergency.”   So we took the wine and fish and went on another excursion under the Red Cliff. The river flowed noisily, the banks rose sheer for a thousand feet; the moon was small between the high mountains, and stones stood out from the sunken water; even after so few months and days river and mountains were no longer recognizable. I lifted the hem of my coat and stepped ashore. Treading on the steep rocks, parting the dense thickets, I squatted on stones shaped like tigers and leopards, climbed twisted pines like undulating dragons, drew myself up to the perilous nests of perching falcons, looked down into the underwater palace of the River God. Neither of the guests was able to keep up with me.   I called them with a long slicing whistle. The grass and trees stirred and shook, cries in the mountains were answered in the valleys, the wind rose and the water seethed. I felt uneasy and dispirited, frightened by the eeriness of it; I shivered, it was impossible to stay there. We turned back and climbed into the boat, loosed it in midstream, and moored it where it drifted to a stop. At that time it was nearly midnight, and there was silence all around us. Just then a single crane came from the east across the river, with wings turning like cartwheels, white jacketed and black underneath. With a long dragging wail it dived at our boat and flew on westwards.   The guests left at once, and I too retired to sleep. I dreamed of a Taoist monk who passed below Lin-kao swaggering in a feathered robe. He asked me with a bow:   “Did you enjoy your trip to the Red Cliff?”   I asked his name; he looked down and did not answer.   “Ah, I know you! Last night, the thing which flew past me wailing, wasn’t it you?”   The Taoist looked back at me smiling. I woke with a start and opened the door to look for him, but did not see him anywhere.   Su Shih (1036-1101)

(translated by A. C. Graham)

[smallislandbigsong]

PINAGSANGA - Small Island Big Song ft' Putad from Small Island Big Song on Vimeo.

Pinagsanga begins with a spoken-word piece in Amis language by singer-songwriter Putad's own family - four generations of Amis women, a matriarchal indigenous nation of Taiwan. Putad's Grandmother: We are the lineage of our people Putad's Mother: Through our mothers Putad: Maintaining the connection to our land Putad's Daughter: Mummy

Pinagsanga is a collaboration, with -

Lead vocals, composer Putad - Amis, Taiwan Paiwan chant, Jaw harp Sauljaljui - Paiwan, Taiwan Purerehua Horomona Horo - Aotearoa/New Zealand Kundu, shakers Richard Mogu - Papua New Guinea Sanza Emlyn - Mauritius Udu, Balafon Luc of Vaiteani - Tahiti Warup, Kundu drum Airileke - Papua New Guinea & Australia Monika Yumi Yet Bamboo Band - Bougainville Valiha Tarika Sammy - Madagascar and four generations of Amis women of Putad's family (her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her daughter) Music Producer Tim Cole - Australia

MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION CREDITS

Director - Shih Ting Hung @shihtinghung Performed - Putad Pihay Special Appearance - Sauljaljui, Liyad Putad Pihay Executive Producers - BaoBao Chen, Shih Ting Hung, Yu Cheng Tu & Tim Cole

Productions Production Company Image Monster Co,.Ltd Executive Producer Yu Cheng Tu Line producer(pre-production) Penny Chen Line Producer Hung Hsi Chiu Line Producer Wen Yu Hsieh Assisant Producer Guan Ying Cheng, Chih Yao Luo, Pei-Cih Jhang

Underwater Unit Cinematographer Howell Chang Assistant Camera Yi-Ting Liu

Drone Unit Cinematographer Yu Cheng Tu 1st AC Chen Jia Yang 2nd AC Yu Hsiu Chen Best boy Jun Shen Wang, Yu Chen Lin

Art Department Art Director Michael Sabyan Assistant Polly Chen

Costume Department Tapa Cloth Designer Halomai Costume fitting Siku Pihay Costume Care Polly Chen

Safety Department COVID Compliance Officer James Young Shih Lifeguard Pei Chen Chang, Zih hao Li On-set Yoga Teacher Chiou wen Chen

Post Production Editor Shih-Ting Hung Colorist Lynn Chiang Post Production Producer Chen Jia Yang Assistant Editor Yi Fang Su Assistant Editor Yi Liang Liou DI Artist James Wu

Behind the scenes Bon Wu

Music Music Producer - Tim Cole Recording - Tim Cole, Richard Mogu, Airileke, Tafita, Luc Totterwitz, Kan Chan Kin Mixing / Mastering - Tim Cole Project Producer - BaoBao Chen

Supported by Taiwan Creative Content Agency Australia Council for the Arts National Taitung University Ling Tung University HiONE World Niceday production Studio Chih Yao Luo Precondition Productions LensBank Akiyama House

Presented by Small Island Big Song

Full thank you list, artist notes, interactive songs’ journeys, photos, videos and stories on our website.

smallislandbigsong.com

[irismfrost]

July 15 - Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, the Grand Hotel, and Shilin Night Market

The memorial hall looks like the Taiwanese version of the Lincoln Memorial. Chiang Kai-Shek was a leader of the opposition in the Chinese Civil War before WW2. He then fought for China in the second Sino-Japanese War. After Japan was defeated at the end of WW2, he continued his fight against the Communist Party in China. Defeated in the Civil War, he fled to Taiwan. That is why Taiwan is officially named the Republic of China (ROC). He made Taiwan into a “little China”. Despite the memorial dedicated to him, the Taiwanese people have mixed feelings about him. On one hand, he represented freedom from Communist China and on the other, he took over what already existed in Taiwan. At the memorial, there are 3 words above his statue that represent what he stood for: ethics, democracy, and science. However, as much as he promised democracy, he changed the constitution to leave him in power until he died. His son succeeded him and built the memorial in his name. Eventually, the US influenced the country into a democracy with a similar system used in the US. The memorial is divided into these two different perspectives. One side shows all of his positive achievements and the other shows all of his less-than-stunning side. He is also not buried at the memorial, and is actually not laid to rest at all. He wished to be buried at his home in China after Taiwan reconnected to China. That hasn’t happened (yet?), so he hasn’t been buried. That is another example of why not all Taiwanese like him, because he never saw Taiwan as his home.

We also visited the capitol building, it is basically the Taiwanese version of the White House, except the President doesn’t live there. Not much to report there. 

Next, we visited the Grand Hotel. This is the largest building in traditional Chinese architecture, where the most important people were welcomed into the country. It was created by madam Chiang Kai-Shek, Soong Mei-ling, who actually lived until 105 years old and passed in 2003. From movie stars to presidents, many important events took place here (and still do). It is located at one of the highest points in Taipei with a killer view. A few people in our group were able to buy some luck charms from a lady in the hotel for really cheap. She really liked us and our team had some fire negotiation skills. We got over 15 charms for about 10 USD. 

Our last stop was the Shilin Night Market. Compared to the Raohe Night Market, it was more organized, had wider streets, and the products seemed a little higher quality. It was also much larger, the largest in Taipei actually. However, there is so much fried food at these night markets, I can barely eat. I had what was basically a mozzarella stick with extra dough around the outside and it was good for the first few bites and then I just felt sick. I also got these grilled mushrooms which looked good and actually weren’t bad, but by that point, the mozzarella stick was not sitting right so I barely ate the mushrooms. 

I have been walking so much recently, and I’ve opted to take the stairs instead of the escalators at the metro station when available because why not, so my lower body is killing me. I definitely need sleep so badly. 

Reflection

Chiang Kai-Shek was a very powerful guy. It takes a strong character to lead a revolution, lose, convince followers to permanently leave their homes, and portray yourself as a savior in the country you are taking over. But he did it. He brought a new culture to Taiwan and is the reason that there is such a strong Chinese influence here. When he first came to Taiwan, China was moving away from traditional styles, so he made Taiwan into what he thought China should be, “little China”. At the memorial, there are two large, traditional Chinese buildings on either side of the square. They house a music hall and a theater. The square is called Freedom Square and modeled after Tiananmen Square in China. Based on the limited knowledge I have, I think he wasted his time making Taiwan into his ideal replica of China. I think that maybe he was never able to accept his loss in the Civil War and he dealt with that by trying to prove to China that he could lead a more successful version. And he had a strong enough character to make an entire country help him with that - a little scary, but also a little impressive. 

I am surprised by the food here. I wasn’t really sure exactly what to expect, but I figured that there would be some nice vegetarian options for me, as about 14% of the population is vegetarian, and I thought the food would be healthier than in the US. I was wrong. Today, I had my first real meal since I’ve been here (aside from hotpot earlier this week, but I didn’t feel like that style of eating was made for a vegetarian). It was good ramen. The soup base was a summer special of pumpkin. It has some great noodles, tofu, egg, mushrooms, and some other veggies. There was so much of it that I wasn’t able to finish it, and when I asked for a to-go box, they boxed it for me. I’ve noticed that customer service is a high priority here. Everyone just seems to care about other people so much. Yesterday, a random man gave me his cold, unopened water because I was struggling with the water dispenser (they all have hot and cold settings). 

It’s strange to think about the contrast between a culture that’s so caring and a founding “president” who created a world for himself. Maybe they are influenced by each other.

[pollicinor]

Charles Lindbergh (1927) Walter Chrysler (1928) Owen D. Young (1929) Mahatma Gandhi (1930) Pierre Leval (1931) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) Hugh S. Johnson (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934) Haile Selassie (1935) Wallis Simpson (1936) Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling (1937) Adolf Hitler (1938) Joseph Stalin (1939) Winston Churchill (1940) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941) Joseph Stalin (1942) George Marshall (1943) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944) Harry S. Truman (1945) James F. Byrnes (1946) George Marshall (1947) Harry S. Truman (1948) Winston Churchill (1949) The American Soldier (1950) Mohammad Mosaddegh (1951) Elizabeth II (1952) Konrad Adenauer (1953) John Foster Dulles (1954) Harlow Curtice (1955) The Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956) Nikita Khrushchev (1957) Charles de Gaulle (1958) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959) American Scientists (1960) John F. Kennedy (1961) Pope John XXIII (1962) Martin Luther King Jr. (1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) William Westmoreland (1965) The Inheritor (1966) Lyndon B. Johnson (1967) The Apollo 8 Astronauts: Jim Lovell, William Anders, Frank Borman (1968) The Middle Americans (1969) Willy Brandt (1970) Richard Nixon (1971) Henry Kissinger (1972) Richard Nixon (1972) John Sirica (1973) King Faisal (1974) American Women (1975) Jimmy Carter (1976) Anwar Sadat (1977) Deng Xiaoping (1978) Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) Ronald Reagan (1980) Lech Wałęsa (1981) The Computer (1982) Ronald Reagan, Yuri Andropov (1983) Peter Ueberroth (1984) Deng Xiaoping (1985) Corazon Aquino (1986) Mikhail Gorbachev (1987) The Endangered Earth (1988) Mikhail Gorbachev (1989) George H.W. Bush (1990) Ted Turner (1991) Bill Clinton (1992) The Peacemakers: Yitzhak Rabin, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat (1993) Pope John Paul II (1994) Newt Gingrich (1995) David Ho (1996) Andrew Grove (1997) Bill Clinton, Ken Starr (1998) Person of the Year: Jeff Bezos // Person of the Century: Albert Einstein (1999) George W. Bush (2000) Rudy Giuliani (2001) The Whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins, Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley (2002) The American Soldier (2003) George W. Bush (2004) The Good Samaritans: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Bono (2005) You (2006) Vladimir Putin (2007) Barack Obama (2008) Ben Bernanke (2009) Mark Zuckerberg (2010) The Protester (2011) Barack Obama (2012) Pope Francis (2013) The Ebola Fighters (2014) Angela Merkel (2015) Donald Trump (2016) The Silence Breakers (2017) The Guardians and the War on Truth (2018) Greta Thunberg (2019) Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (2020) Elon Musk (2021) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2022)

Dall’articolo "Every ‘TIME’ Person of the Year Since 1927" di Jake Rossen

[elfabianaco]

(vía Bocadillos de diseño: Domo, Strategy, Vicki Ling, Pierre-Paul Pariseau y Lung-Hao Chiang | Experimenta)

[organisationskoval]

CC Clique

339) CC Clique (chiński: CC派) lub Central Club Clique, Klika Klubu Centralnego (chiński: 中央俱樂部組織) - jedna z frakcji politycznych w Kuomintangu (Chińska Partia Nacjonalistyczna) w Chińskiej Republice Ludowej (1912–49). Kierowali nią bracia Chen Guofu i Chen Lifu, przyjaciele Czang Kaj-szeka. Chen Lifu i jego starszy brat Chen Guofu byli siostrzeńcami Chen Qimei, który aż do zabójstwa dokonanego przez chińskiego wodza Yuan Shih-kai w 1916 roku był mentorem przyszłego przywódcy nacjonalistów Czang Kaj-szeka. Z powodu tych osobistych powiązań bracia Chen przybyli, aby kierować operacjami organizacyjnymi zdominowanej przez Chiang KMT, zakładając własną organizację polityczną znaną jako CC Clique. Uważana za skrajną prawicę Kuomintangu obok Towarzystwa Niebieskich Koszul, CC Clique reprezentowała tradycjonalistów, antykomunistów, antyjapończyków i interesy ziemskie. Byli najbliżej generalissimusa Czang Kaj-szeka, wpływając na nominacje i awanse oraz posiadali największy pakiet głosów w Centralnym Komitecie Wykonawczym. Szefem partii był Chen Li-fu. Wśród jej członków było wielu członków elity partii, w tym takie osoby, jak żona Czang Kaj-szeka Soong Mei-ling i H. H. Kung. Wpłynęli na wywiad, handel, bankowość, wojsko, edukację i propagandę. Klika CC umieściła lojalnych zwolenników w całej partii i maszynerii rządowej, zapewniając wpływy w biurokracji, agencjach edukacyjnych, organizacjach młodzieżowych i związkach zawodowych. Bracia wywarli również wpływ na Centralne Biuro Śledcze i Statystyczne KMT, jedno z dwóch głównych organów policyjnych i wywiadowczych w Chiang. Chen Lifu swobodnie przyznał, że jednostki te wywołały znaczną krytykę (The Storm Clouds, s. 68). Wang Tseng-shan, chiński muzułmanin, był komisarzem KMT do spraw obywatelskich w koalicyjnym rządzie Xinjiangu w latach 1946–47 i był związany z kliką CC. Ujgur Masud Sabri był także członkiem kliki CC, podobnie jak Tatar Burhan Shahidi i generał KMT oraz Chińczyk-Han Wu Zhongxin.

[thinktosee]

MADAME NHU  - THE TRAGEDY OF 1963

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, Aug 9, 1963

In a democracy, the voice of the People is deemed to prevail. Within the confines of an authoritarian society however, there is always space and scope for an unelected or unofficial, and yet de facto spokesperson, to assume the mantle of power beside the despot. This person typically but not always, holds no official position within the state apparatus, but yet wields enormous political power and influence in the regime. In general, this is possible only because of the blood or conjugal ties which bind the two. Often times, this abuse of power, or if one prefers, corruption gives rise to tragic consequences, especially for the country, but also for the protagonists. Pre-Communist China’s Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Soong May-ling is an example. (1) Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Romualdez, who ruled Philippines from 1965-1986 is another. (2) Then there is the story of South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem and his sister-in-law and First Lady, Madame Nhu.

“She believed in her own greatness. She believed in her own myth” (3)

-   Author, Monique Brinson Demery, describing Madame Nhu in her book, Finding the Dragon Lady.

South Vietnam’s first President, Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, (Madame Nhu’s husband) who controlled the internal security apparatus of the country, were deposed in a military coup on Nov. 1, 1963. They were soon murdered while in custody. (4)

How events spiraled downwards to rest on this deadly bed of rusty nails remain a matter of contention among scholars of Vietnam’s political history. (5) Just as importantly, how much of this is attributed directly or indirectly to the groundswell of popular discontent, especially among the majority Buddhists, to the blatant corruption, ineptitude and abusive behaviour of the Diem regime? Finally, to what degree is this also related to Madame Nhu’s overreach? 

Hailing from a patrician clan related to the Emperor Bao Dai (b.1913-d.1997), Madame Nhu cut a complicated figure – a feminist who helped emancipate her people and to transition them from a feudal to a relatively modern society. At the same time, it was reported that her abrasiveness and insensitivity or perhaps political naivete, fostered serious fissures within the religious communities of the country. (6)

Following the assassinations, Madame Nhu moved to Europe, alternating between France and Italy, where she passed away nearly half a century after, in 2011. She was a major actor in the modern history of Vietnam, not unlike Eva Peron was to Argentina.

Whilst a teen, I followed the developments of the War in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos through old and current issues of Time, Newsweek and Life Magazines. This was nearly 10 years after the “events” of 1963  - the brutal assassinations of Diem and Nhu on Nov 2, and that of JFK in Dallas on Nov 22. I gathered then, more intuitively than anything, that these murders were connected in some way to the War. I am optimistic nevertheless that the truth, if it can ever be so defined, will surface someday, possibly through declassified records of the U.S. Government of the time.

Diem was said to be earnest in his desire to transition to a democracy. (7) At the same time however, he seemed unable to shake off the monkey on his back, so to speak - the demanding clan to which he belonged, supported and relied upon to rule. Politics in South Vietnam and many other newly independent states then was a Family business. I guess not a good deal has changed in the world in that regard, including within South-East Asia.

For South Vietnam then, the story reads like a Shakespearean tragi-play. In fact, the U.S. CIA had previously in Aug 1963, just over two months before the murders of Diem and Nhu, prepared a “Cast of Characters in South Vietnam.” (8) This seems a trite too convenient.

Sources/References

1. The Celebrity of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (theculturetrip.com)

2. Why the Marcos family is so infamous in the Philippines - BBC News

3. Chicago author searches for South Vietnam's Marie Antoinette – Chicago Tribune

4. The Diem coup | Miller Center

5. MSU and Vietnam: A dark chapter of the school's history - Spartan Newsroom

6. Madame Nhu obituary | Vietnam | The Guardian

7. DIEM DEDICATED TO CAUSE (cia.gov)

8. CAST OF CHARACTERS IN SOUTH VIETNAM (cia.gov)

    OCI No. 2703/63, Dated 28 August, 1963