1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics the four Johns had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had
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There is so much to learn about China and these books are a good start
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We still know so little about China, a country that has been the centre of global power for centuries and is reshaping the 21st century.
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The American Civil War comes immediately to mind but it isn t even close.
As many as 750,000 Americans died between 1861 and 1865 in the conflict between northern and southern states.
But a decade earlier, a civil war in China left between 20 and 30 million people dead.
The Taiping Rebellion ranks among the worst conflicts in human history.