Tusi

Zhongguo Tusi Zhidu (The native chieftain system in China).

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

"Ershi Shiji Zhongguo Tusi Zhidu Yanjiu de Lilun yu Fangfa" (Theories and approaches in studies of the Chinese native chieftain system in the twentieth century).

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Note 90: Gong Yin, Zhongguo Tusi Zhidu (The native chieftain system in China) (Kunming: Minzu Chubanshe, 1992), 460-461; for tusi in the Ming, also see Jiang Yingliang, Mingdai Yunnan Jingnei de Tuguan yu Tusi (Native chieftains in Yunnan of the Ming Period) (Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe, 1958). back

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Note 44: For the above measures, see Yuan Shi, juan 125, in YNSLCK 2: 556-557; for the tusi system, Gong Yin in his review article has listed Chinese sources and works; see Gong Yin 2002, "20 Shiji Zhonguo Tusi Zhidu Yanjiu de Lilun yu Fangfa" (Theories and approaches in studies of the Chinese native chieftain system in the twentieth century), Sixiang Zhanxian 28, no.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Statistical figures based on Gong Yin, Zhongguo Tusi Zhidu (The native chieftain system in China) (Kunming: Minzu Chubanshe, 1992), 58, 61, 113-114.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Xu Duo in the end of the eighteenth century described in Lin'an thus: "Abo [the native people] of three thousand are all farmers, and tusi [native chieftains] of twelve are all well dressed" (Abo sanqian jie jiase, Tusi shier jin yiguan).

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

In fact, it might be better to say the Copernican theory that Galileo was constructing was a physical realization of parts of Copernicus 'theory, which, by the way, dispensed with all the mathematical trappings (eccentrics, epicycles, Tusi couples and the like).

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

Tusi mentions two types of argumentation that the tradition describes as assertoric proof or quia (burhan inni) and demonstrative proof or propter quid (burhan limmi), the former is an inference from effect to cause and the latter is from cause to effect.

Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

But getting back to Tusi, who whilst still on the run from Ismaili stronghold to stronghold, which were gradually but surely falling to the Mongols.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

Tusi may have been only 17 when Genghis Khan invaded but he was already a gifted scholar having studied far and wide with some of the great Alchemists of the time, which included mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers at the height of the Islamic Golden Age.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008