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Emperor Taizong vowed revenge and formed alliance w Gokturk’s enemy Turkic Xue Yuantuo and #Uyghurs to conquer East Turkic Khaganate
This is the historic background of the story
artist: Jack Huang https://t.co/c0wDIjIFCQ
East Turkic Khaganate took opportunity of Tang coup to march onto Tang capital Chang’an (today’s Xi’an)
New Tang Emperor Taizong met Gokturk Khagan across Wei River to form new peace treaty
artist: Jack Huang https://t.co/6lXWcyGqUa
Original poster was inexplicably censored by Zhihu forum. Then new poster emerged, jokingly referred to as 2nd sage of Ruguanism. Yes, we have his Moe girl representation. He proposed China’s prb is not internal division of wealth, but raid wealth externally a la Manchu conquest
A Torghut Mongol couple in 皇清職貢圖 Imperial Qing portraits of periodical offering commissioned under Qianlong Emperor btw 1761-1793. Today Torghut live in #Xinjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia
In 1900, 8 Nation Alliance (UK, US, Germany, Japan, Russia, France, Austro-Hungary, Italy) troops invaded China to crush Boxer Rebellion. Italian cartoonist echo Kaiser Wilhelm's Yellow Peril w West personified by White woman waving the flag of “Civilization” urging Euro soldiers