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China's crossroads
If the past century was tumultuous in China, marked by the triumph of Mao’s Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution and recent soaring global status, then the previous one was equally so. The years 1796-1912 are the focus of a major new British Museum exhibition, which shines fresh light on a lesser-known yet transformative era of civil wars, international conflicts and enforced
