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Did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?

Chinese Whispers

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The Inter-Ertopulation of China and the West

When you learn in China about the year 1900, that's what you hear about the invasion of China by a consortium of soldiers from all over the place. But when you grow up in America or in Britain, if you hear about what happened in 1900, you hear about something called the Boxer Rebellion. And instead of that, growing up in China,. you hear about this invasion that crushed that. So you have, if you think beyond just China and the West, and I think that's probably what an over emphasis on China and theWest as the two things is probably what you had in common with somebody growing up with a very different thing.

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