Dreams of life
Apr 11, 2021
3 minutes
by JEREMY REES
here’s an awful lot of past in China, but it doesn’t always sit easy. It’s not so much that the past is another country in China, it’s more that the terrain is tricky and the maps keep changing. In imperial times, each dynasty would write the official history of the one before, emphasising when the other lost the right to the mandate of heaven. Mao Zedong was an avid reader of Chinese history, but he wanted to
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