Tacitus Trap is a political theory named after Roman historian Tacitus, which describes a situation where an unpopular government is hated no matter what it does and whether it is right or wrong. The theory was brought up in a 2007 book by Professor Pan Zhichang from the School of Journalism and Communication at Nanjing University. In the book, he quoted Tacitus' remark on Galba, an unpopular emperor of Rome, to explain the recurrent declines of the Chinese dynasties throughout the history: "When a government is unpopular, either good policies or bad policies tell against the government itself."[1] Since China’s paramount leader and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping's use of the term in 2014, it has become increasingly popular in journalism and academia in China.[2] State-run media in China, such as People's Daily online, summarised that since the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Party general secretary Xi Jinping has described three traps that China might fall into, that is, Tacitus Trap, Thucydides Trap and middle-income trap.[3][4]
TacitusTrap is a political theory named after Roman historian Tacitus, which describes a situation where an unpopular government is hated no matter what...
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source by other prominent Roman historians, including Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Tacitus may have used Bella Germaniae as the primary source for his...
2019. Tacitus, The Annals 1.55 Tacitus, The Annals 1.57 "Thusnelda, Wife of Hermann". www.germanamericanpioneers.org. Retrieved 1 June 2019. Tacitus, The...
Tacitus, Annals, I.56 Tacitus, Annals, I.57 Smith 1867, p. 259 Wells 2003, pp. 204–205 Tacitus, I.63 Wells 2003, p. 206; Smith 1867, p. 259 Tacitus,...
year after his Censorship, 48, is detailed in book 11 of Tacitus' Annal. This section of Tacitus' history narrates the alleged conspiracy of Claudius's...
LIV, Ch 32. Tacitus 117:30, The Annals, Bk I, Ch 60. Events of AD 15–16. Tacitus 117:48, The Annals, Bk II, Ch 17. Events of AD 16–19 Tacitus 117:50, The...
6.16 and 6.20 to Cornelius Tacitus and in Project Gutenberg: Letter LXV — To Tacitus, Letter LXVI — To Cornelius Tacitus Sigurdsson, Haraldur (2001)...
Wells 2003, pp. 196–197. Tacitus & Barrett 2008, p. 39 Wells 2003, p. 206 Wells 2003, p. 206. Tacitus & Barrett 2008, p. 57. Tacitus & Barrett 2008, p. 58...
Ἰουερνία, where "ου"/ou stands for w)[citation needed]. The Roman historian Tacitus, in his book Agricola (c. 98 AD), uses the name Hibernia. Ἰουερνία Iouerníā...
ground himself in a material world of mud and dirt. [original research?] Tacitus records the emperor Nero's liking for roaming the streets of his capital...
Gyldendal (F. Hegel). Tacitus, Lucius Cornelius; Church, Alfred J. (tr.); Brodribb, William J. (tr.) (1868). The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus. London: MacMillan...
1505–1764 (History of Poland 1505–1764), pp. 258–261 "Tacitus.nu, Örjan Martinsson. Danish force". Tacitus.nu. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014...
the soil. Tacitus 117:147–148, The Annals, Bk IV, Ch 72–74. Events of AD 15–16. Tacitus specifically refers to the herds of the Frisii. Tacitus & 98:61–62...
Century AD. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-0350-4. The Works of Tacitus, Volume 1, The Annals, London: Bohn, 1854, Book 2, chapter 25, p. 69. livius...
the pages of Tacitus with reference to an incident of the early empire. The British king, Caratacus, having rebelled, found himself trapped on a rocky hill...
ISSN 0149-6611. JSTOR 2909241. Renehan, Robert (1973). "A Proverbial Expression in Tacitus". Classical Philology. 68 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 114–115...
LXXXVI. Strabo. Geography. Suetonius. De vita Caesarum. Tacitus. Annales. Tacitus. Historiae. Tacitus. De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae. Valerius Maximus...
hereditary princes. He thinks Machiavelli may have been influenced by Tacitus as well as his own experience. This categorization of regime types is also...
this story fusing the form of Seth and Yahweh spread like a cancer. [...] Tacitus, who wrote (early in the second century CE) that the Jews dedicated in...
until their defeat at the Battle of Salamis. Fearing that the Greeks might trap him in Europe, Xerxes retreated with the greater part of his army back to...
shifting cultivation was already a thing of the past at the birth of Christ. Tacitus describes it as the strange cultivation methods he had experienced among...
one of the most important events in European history. By 100 AD, when Tacitus wrote Germania, Germanic tribes had settled along the Rhine and the Danube...
pp. 42–44. Cicero, Phil. XIV, 26. Canfora (2007), pp. 53–55. Tacitus, Ann. I, 10; Tacitus writes of "shedding poison on the wound" of Pansa and the "machinations...
trapped in a house that was set on fire. Tacitus provides the most extent commentary on the rebellion of any primary source. In many respects Tacitus...
Marcus Aurelius, 24.5.) Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum, VI). Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum, XXX, 3). Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum...
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