Comments on: It was a march without parallel in history https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/it-was-a-march-without-parallel-in-history/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Prism https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/it-was-a-march-without-parallel-in-history/comment-page-1/#comment-3277701 Prism Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:49:11 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=47166#comment-3277701 “For more generations than men could count, soldiers in the Middle Kingdom had ranked low in the orders of society, far down the scale from the scholar and the poet.”

Isn’t this bullshit? And reflective more of the Song dynasty than say the Ming or Qing.

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