A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
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How Much History Matters?
History and the past are not the same thing, right? The past happened. History is how we write about it. So that's one thing about why history matters, because it influences how people think about the present. And if you veer off off the course, um, you'll fall into one of two traps. One is that you try to be overly specific. Things fall apart very quickly. On the other hand, if you say, well, she gin ping is the same as now, because he's the leader of china and really powerful and i fluential, it's like, well this is completely uninteresting. You need to steer in between those two pitfalls.
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