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      China

      John Keay

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperPress in 2008

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       For Julia

      The Master said, ‘Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals? Is it not a joy to have like-minded friends come from afar? Is it not gentlemanly not to take offence when others fail to appreciate your abilities?’

      Confucius, The Analects, Book I, i1

      He who does not forget the past is master of the present.

      Sima Qian, Shiji2

      Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       6 WANG MANG AND THE HAN REPRISE

       7 FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF VICISSITUDE

       8 SUI, TANG AND THE SECOND EMPIRE

       9 HIGH TANG

       10 RECONFIGURING THE EMPIRE

       11 CAVING IN

       12 BY LAND AND SEA

       13 THE RITES OF MING

       14 THE MANCHU CONQUEST

       15 DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE

       16 REPUBLICANS AND NATIONALISTS

       EPILOGUE

       Keep Reading

       NOTES

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       Praise

       About the Publisher

       INTRODUCTION

      REWRITING THE PAST

      CHINA’S ECONOMIC RESURGENCE IN THE POST-MAO era has not been without its casualties. Gone are the Chairman’s portraits, the mass parades of flag-waving workers and the hoe-toting brigades on their collectivised farms. Apartment blocks, tightly mustered and regimentally aligned, perform the new choreography; flyovers vault the rice paddies, cable cars abseil the most sacred of mountains, hydrofoils ruffle the lakes beloved of poets. Familiar features in the historical landscape have either disappeared or been reconfigured as


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