The Early Life of Chairman Mao With Brandon Gauthier
The China History Podcast
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Water Margin - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
As a kid, he reads on his dad's farm. He has to hide it from his dad, cause his dad gets mad. This is what obsesses him as a child. And so this is something i argue we should take seriously, because we see it resonate with his later a time aspiring for power in the civil war and so on. The heroes of liong changba, the water margin heroes. They are willing to fight against what they view as the tyrannical actions of an emperor who is out of touch with the people. In reality, the book's protagonist, sangjiong, that in water margin, is not an outlaw, but that he always assisted
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