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The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 6/6

While Hart worked in Ningpo, as you may see, the concern of the Chinese and Westerners had little to do with the Taiping Rebellion and more with pirates and crime. Read more

July 13, 2012
The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 5/6

Tilly, in claim six, ever the historian as she says in her Readers Cafe review of The Concubine Saga, points out that the Santai Dynasty mentioned in chapter four was not the oldest known dynasty when in fact the oldest was the Xia. She is correct but wrong at the same time. The Xia (or… Read more

July 12, 2012
The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 4/6

In Tilly’s opinion, castrations only took place after a man was hired to work in the Forbidden City … She was wrong! Read more

July 11, 2012
The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 3/6

No one knows what Hart actually paid for Ayaou or Shao-mei because Hart did not mention the price paid anywhere in his surviving journals Read more

July 10, 2012
The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 2/6

Tilly claimed that Robert Hart could not have been raised to respect women as equals in Victorian England. Read more

July 9, 2012
The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 1/6

If an author believes he or she has been defamed, then it is the duty of the author to speak out in his or her own defense unless a loyal fan does it first. Read more

July 8, 2012