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Mao and the Monkey King
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The Empire of Ming, China
The novel satirizes the idea of absolutist rulership, says Julia. The author himself would have wanted to be an official if he didn't manage it himself. But he would also have seen the fate of many other educated men who served increasingly eccentric tyrants on the emperor's throne between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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