jonathan d spence lets good "In Search of Modern China" read by a terrible british man just listen to the samplehttps://www.audible.com/pd/The-Search-for-Modern-China-Audiobook/B009AFTZ16 …
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Looks like he wrote about the Song Dynasty too specifically. I have a hunch backed up by the barest of research that the Mongols fucked up everything when they conquered China when they did. The character of the early Song seems to prefigure to me a possible chinese renaissance
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Very different than any dynasty before or since, more mercantile and commerce focused than even the Tang, less expansionistic. The Ming are very very reactionary and paranoid and I think it stems from the scar of foreign occupation.
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