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The Beggars' Democracy

Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis, by Hao Chang

John Derbyshire •ï¿½August 1, 1988

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The last twenty years of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911) were not a happy time for Chinese intellectuals. It was bad enough to find oneself living at the wrong end of a dynastic cycle, when the measured tones of ancient rationalism were being drowned out by the rising din of institutional collapse; but for that circumstance... Read More

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