What the Fucking Merchants Have to Say?

Every 300 years of Chinese empire, people start starving. They do a revolution and then they put in a new fucking emperor. That's how you lose the mandate of heaven is getting the peasants pissed off at you. Some of them stayed and kept grinding it out in China, but a lot of them left. And they created Chinese diasporic merchant colonies all through Asia,. from Taiwan to Macau to Southeast Asia and Indonesia and Manila, Philippines. It's very interesting. You see in Asia a recapitulation of the sort of cycles of pogroms that happened to Jews in Europe, but against Chinese colonies in the rest of Asia.