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Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. Chinas new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign powers, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past. History matters deeply to Beijings current rulers, and Out of China Read more