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Fragility, not strength, at the heart of Chinese politics – Sydney Morning Herald
A new book claims that cultural anxiety, insecurity and paranoia lurk just beneath the surface of contemporary China’s politics.
“Until the very end of the 19th century, rulers in Beijing would not even have recognised the name China’,” says Bill Hayton in his new book, TheInvention of China. He describes how early European adventurers were puzzled when they reached a place they thought of as China or Land of the Chins only to discover the locals knew no such name.
The territory we recognise today as China bore the name of each successive dynasty that ruled it. Just as its name changed with the name of the dynasty, so di…
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