User:Descartes~enwiki

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@This user can be reached by email at dorian.goh@gmail.com.

This user is from Singapore.

Communications

en-2This user can contribute with an intermediate level of English.

zh-2該用戶能以一般的中文進行交流。
该用户能以一般的中文进行交流。

Interests

This user is a history buff.

About myself

I'm a Singaporean of Chinese descend, and my interest in Chinese history goes back to my childhood. Unfortunately, growing up the sort of 'Chinese history' (i.e. modern secondary sources) available in the Chinese mass market is heavily laced with propaganda and modern assumptions, while good books available to English readers are few and far between.

I'm not a professional historian, but I've taken enough history classes in school to know that there is no such thing as a truly "objective" view of events, still, I hope in some modest way to contribute to a more even handed approach to the articles on Chinese history here on the Wikipedia.

All constructive comments are most welcome.

Contributions

• Qing Dynasty:

1. Military
2. Bureaucracy
3. Formation of the Manchu State
4. Claiming the Mandate of Heaven

• Taichang Emperor

Currently Working On

• Qing Dynasty:

1. Kangxi and consolidation

• Oboi