The once and future China: what of China's past could be a harbinger for its future?(FP Special Report)

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...constitutes political stability, for example, has varied dramatically across almost four millennia, and in different periods it has been defined in relation to the greatness of leaders, the peacefulness of imperial successions, the suppression of peasant rebellions, and the handling of foreign incursions--whether religions, technologies, or troops.

Our appreciation of China's economic growth will veer erratically, depending on whether we concentrate on specie and banking, the formation of cities, the creation of trade hubs, or advances in transportation and communication. Our current fascination with high-tech dynamism could be tied to an equally wide range of variants, designed to give China an aura of either preeminence or stagnation. Rarely has China been so weak as when the emperor's ill-equipped army did battle with British forces during the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century. And yet, the sophistication of the...

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