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u/dhalgrendhalgren · 3 pointsr/Chinese

So do you want topics in a certain field?

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Linguistics is a great way to write about Chinese--there's political intrigue, history, movement of people, burning of academics and their books...but I digress.

^(Orthographic borrowing is also super interesting. How Chinese words for "modern" scientific concepts are Japanese in origin...but Japan used Classical Chinese characters to translate the) ^(idea) ^(of the scientific concept, and China just borrowed the words back.. 核子 "nuclear" from Classical "seed/pit")

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"Private Life Under Socialism" details the late-Mao and early 开放 era (amazon.com)

A lot of the economic analysis of that era that isn't Kissinger and the inanity of the "domino" theory can be found under demographic research. Will Lavely out of the University of Washington does a ton of work on it, and is a well-known figure in the field of historical demographics.