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Chinese Whispers: what is it to be 'Chinese'?

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Japan and Japan's Relationships to Japan and China

There wasn't a sense, i think they were in okano oow exactly part of that nation. And so ye, a lot of people are being retrospectively classified as goodies and baddies. But perhaps these people who were helping the opium trade in the south just didn't really consider themselves to be linked to the did the communities. That's amazing. I also think it's interesting that so much of this happened in japan, you know, of all countries. Ois geographically very close, and militarily and civilizationally, very strong at that point. Of modern china coming out of japan is deeply ironic to me, and possibly upsets a few people, you think

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