Chinese Whispers: what is it to be 'Chinese'?
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The People's Republic of China Is Still Trying to Keep Together Those Different Territories
There have been periods when the government, t state, the party, wanted to sort of smelt everybody into a single unit. And then there was a period, say that of the eighties and nineties, when there was a tolerance for difference. Now i o undershea, there's clearly an attempt o kind of, you now, to go back to the smelting mould. I read in the book i trace, this is not a new thing. These two ways of looking at difference, you know, were there from the beginning. Some one like sunat sen was definitely a smelter. He looked at the united states and he saw all the different europeans
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