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Liang Qichao, Mao Zedong, and political tutelage: Are we ready?

I thought you all might get a kick out of a passage from a longer reading I (Jeremiah) assigned to my history class this week. It was written by Liang Qichao in 1903 after a trip to the United States.... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Sun, Feb 17 2008

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