Andy Levin tweeted the following:
"Are any other students of China thinking about this at all? In particular: can a right to rebellion survive in a surveillance state as totalizing as todays under Emperor Xi Jinpings?"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Andy Levin:
"If a ruler was overthrown, they were said to have lost this mandate due to their own actions. Thus, a right of rebellion is baked into the theory."Read on Twitter
"In particular, Ive been thinking about the Mandate of Heaven, a doctrine holding that an emperor had a continuing mandate to rule if their actions were effective and just."Read on Twitter
"For folks who have studied Chinese history, its hard not to make connections between these authoritarian times and the many centuries of dynastic rule in China."Read on Twitter
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