The retrospective history of the People's Republic of China

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The Once and Future China
By Jonathan D. Spence, Foreign Policy, January\February 2005. China continues to carry echoes of its past. And yet, the difficulty of drawing any direct links between its past and present is demonstrated by the fact that any topic can shift in perspective depending on where you enter China's vast chronology.