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“The gentry’s aim was to preserve the family’s elite status by training sons to become scholars and degree-holders.”
John King Fairbank, China: A New History
“all great achievements carry the seeds of their ossification.”
John King Fairbank, China: A New History
“Chinese communism lies the world’s longest tradition of successful autocracy.”
John King Fairbank, China: A New History