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Re:Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre by onlywei on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:14PM (#12027655)
Don't forget the overthrow of the Qing dynasty by the British in the 1800s.
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Re:Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre by ben_jones on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:21PM (#12027902)
Yeah the Opium wars, where Britain arguably got a whole nation addicted to Opium in order to secure better trading conditions for the East India Company.
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