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This is a bombshell of a book. It will doubtless enrage not only officials in Beijing but a mainland populace brought up on narratives of China’s past which have not been subjected to fact-checking. It will confuse foreign readers mostly used to milder versions of the same narrative. Many scholars of China will doubtless attack either specifics or the o…
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