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		Study on the Prohibition of the Purple Costumes in Ancient China (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		19 points by prismatic 6 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

blogabegonija 6 months ago [–]

Purple means royalty, kingship, other forbidden. Maoism is against any kinds of individuality.

remexre 6 months ago | [–]

I'm not certain how much influence Mao had in 1015 AD. Well, that's not true, I'm fairly certain the quantity is zero.

blogabegonija 6 months ago | | [–]

The line about Mao was a sarcasm about more situation of now days. English is not my native.

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