Joktu

First generation Singaporean expat living in New York. Member of the Vietnamese Chinese diaspora displaced by a proletariat revolution.

Layman in Han, Tang and Song Dynasty literature, economics and military history.

Minor in Mesopotamian history. Speaks Teochew, Cantonese, Mandarin and French. Keen interest in evolution, cognitive science and transhumanism. Admirer of Aeschylus, Hypatia, John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

Journalistic Influence

Joktu looks to the following historians for their prose and (attempted) objectivity.

• Sima Qian - Han Dynasty historian and author of the Records of the Grand Historian.

• Pei Ji (Late Tang) - Tang Dynasty chancellor and author who fought corruption and promoted meritocracy.

• Pliny the Elder - Roman naturalist and philosopher.

• Cato the Younger - Roman Republican statesman who challenged the populist ambitions and politics of the Roman aristocracy.

• Josephus

Philosophical Outlook

Live and Let Live.