oh god, it's going to be 7,000 years of Chinese history before you know ithttps://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1311161004911255553 …
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This is a *bad thing* for the study of history in all its forms, because it involves back-projecting a invented vision of the nation, and a well-studied phenomenon not just in China but in, for instance, the territorial disputes causing war in Nagorno-Karabakh right now.
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It also, where I've seen it, comes with an assertion that 'civilization' in China is older than anywhere else, a point that - to the degree it is meaningful - is wrong as a matter of the archaeology: 'civilization' (agriculture/cities/ writing) is older in Egypt&Mesopotamia.
