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Anybody who thinks this book defends the conservative revisionist view that the massacre is a fabrication has clearly not actually read this book. He frequently denounces the revisionists and describes their claims as deceptive. He does not say anything regarding his view of the number of victims, though I get the impression he doesn't agree with the Chinese claim of 300,000, opting instead for 100-200,000.

Everything that's been said should be very obvious to anyone familiar with recent advances in the history of science, but it's still good to say it outright, get it out in the open, the better to challenge the foolhardy hubris of those who maintain their blind faith in white supremacism.

Such a simplistic book, a handful of stories across the centuries outlining the violence that has surrounded the translation of the Bible or the translated Bible, but I don't think I have seen a single story I wasn't already familiar with.

Excellent, except that I don't think he knows the history of wuxia as well as he thinks he does. I have a couple novels from the late Qing that feature female protagonists, they weren't a 1920s invention. Though he may exclude them as not properly wuxia according to his criteria.

As soon as 陆庄主 appeared, the language became so much more opaque. Now that he's gone, it's returned to relatively normal.

Damning. But perhaps most damning is the fact that nothing has changed. So many of the abuses he describes have been reported on recently. Absolutely zero legislative progress to speak of.

A good narrative that feels speculative a few times too many.

Just started it tonight, read maybe six chapters straight through. Barely even felt like it and then, suddenly, I'm 80 pages in. This feels like another fiver.

His style of writing changes a lot. After a hundred pages that were mostly pretty easy fighting and the deaths of Yang Kang's parents, suddenly we find the heroes in the presence of a lame man with whom Rong'r discusses art and who has a confusing maze of an estate, and accordingly the vocabulary has taken a move to the extremely obscure and it's all just a little confounding.

Really not liking this book. If I finish it, it'll be to leave a bad review.

Too anecdotal and achronological, jumping around from time and place to tell different brief stories without much data to contextualize.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe the descriptions of the fighting don't go on a little too long, like maybe 75 pages more than you'd expect in an English language novel of 416 pages.