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319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao

The Realignment

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The Root of Cultural Sweating Statements About the Chinese

Many in the West and the U.S., especially of misconceived China, said at the root of this misconception is this deep focus on cultural touch points. I'm curious like where you think these just it seems to be empirically like, so not just like orientalist in the sense of like, that's like not great academic history, but also just like not even empirically correct.

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