In this installment, Dan and Jordan return from their UK tour to chat about Alex doing an episode full of xenophobia, racist conspiracies, and novel recipes for human cuisine.
#China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing.
In 1959, a group of university students in the northwestern Chinese city of Tianshui embarked on a quixotic plan. China was in the midst of the Great #Famine, a catastrophe caused by government policies that would kill as many as 45 million. These young people had witnessed farmers starving to #death and #cannibalism; they also saw how the government had brutally punished They decided to publish a journal.
"Americans for Prosperity Action, a political advocacy group founded by Charles and David Koch, launched a $1.68 million ad buy Wednesday in North Carolina, and in two other Super Tuesday states, to explain to voters why the political action committee feels it’s important to vote against the former president."
"concluded, through the study of oracle bone scripts and archaeological discoveries, that the Shang Dynasty [ca. 1600–1045 BC] in the early bronze age had embraced brutal #cannibalism and human sacrifices" - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=58846 amazing & groundbreaking stuff...#china
Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal.
I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters (inter alia), and (increasingly) folklore's history. Was doing this through folkloresque representation in #folkhorror & crime novels (& soon #DrWho), now planning just as historical research. Perhaps...
Knowledge Fight: #854: September 29, 2023 (knowledgefight.libsyn.com)
In this installment, Dan and Jordan return from their UK tour to chat about Alex doing an episode full of xenophobia, racist conspiracies, and novel recipes for human cuisine.
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