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Why are there no photographs of 19th Century Chinese Emperors? Was there a rule against it?

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Why is Chiang Kai-shek continued to be called under the old romanization of his name as opposed to more modern romanizations of Chinese names/words?

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How come in WWII Germany didn't seem to have any sort of heavy machine gun?

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How come 16th-18th Century Japan persecuted Christians while Ming and Qing China was more tolerant of them?

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I'm currently reading John King Fairbank's "China: A New History" and I can't help feel that its a bit outdated scholarshipwise, in addition to shoehorning Chinese concepts into Western definitions. Are there any other works on Chinese history that I can look into to supplement Fairbanks' work?

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Did the Hellenic Ptolemaic aristocracy of Egypt marry/reproduce with local Egyptians?

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From the 1800s to the early 20th Century, why were military officers armed only with lighter weapons like pistols and submachineguns?

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Why are there no photographs of 19th Century Chinese Emperors? Was there a rule against it?	1036	AskHistorians
Why is Chiang Kai-shek continued to be called under the old romanization of his name as opposed to more modern romanizations of Chinese names/words?	45	AskHistorians
How come in WWII Germany didn't seem to have any sort of heavy machine gun?	17	AskHistorians
How come 16th-18th Century Japan persecuted Christians while Ming and Qing China was more tolerant of them?	12	AskHistorians
I'm currently reading John King Fairbank's "China: A New History" and I can't help feel that its a bit outdated scholarshipwise, in addition to shoehorning Chinese concepts into Western definitions. Are there any other works on Chinese history that I can look into to supplement Fairbanks' work?	11	AskHistorians
Did the Hellenic Ptolemaic aristocracy of Egypt marry/reproduce with local Egyptians?	8	AskHistorians
From the 1800s to the early 20th Century, why were military officers armed only with lighter weapons like pistols and submachineguns?	6	AskHistorians