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During the visit, Chairman Xi Jinping and his advisors used history to convey messages to President Trump, to the Chinese people, and to the world. The selective use of history—both the history they invoked and the history they averted—revealed the emotions and worldview that drive Chinese Communist Party goals.
H. R. McMaster • Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
Zoos a book entitled China's Borders and Minzu Problems began with a chapter on the "minzu problems and the lessons of the Soviet…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
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Max Boot • Invisible Armies
Wang argues that, after the imperial unification, tianxia cosmology became subordinated to the imperial state (guo) and the earlier distinction between the Zhou imperial state and the realm of tianxia began to disappear.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
The sun shone in the wilderness on a group of people, some familiar faces among them: King Wen of Zhou, Newton, Von Neumann, Aristotle, Mozi, Confucius, and Einstein. Sparsely distributed, they faced Qin Shi Huang, who stood on a rock with a sword across his shoulders. “I am not alone,” he said. “This is the core leadership of seven speaking.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
HO-SHANG KUNG says, “Ancient carts had thirty spokes in imitation of the lunar number.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
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