How much of Chinese history is just made up by the CCP?
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China was closed to freeworld archeologists for at least 50 years given the wars, with only limited excavation since then
We already know they deceive their own people on this stuff
What if state continuity over the millennia was a lot less robust than we think?
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Could easily have told people at Oxford some made up stuff and a bunch of them probably nodded along and transcribed it
"Originals got lost in the war, we conveniently have some translations saved in our archives, here you go"
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I'm not alleging they erased emperors or misrepresented the nature of the state wholesale, but there are definitely some areas that raise eyebrows
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We have records from only one sector of society, the officials, who are uniformly critical of merchants
What if there's a large untranslated body of literature written by merchants that the CCP has or had some ideological hangup about?
Would shift our view of the culture
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We can barely agree on what’s happening in the present and people believe what’s said about the past with less than a keyhole to look through