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February 28, 2018

China: Triumph and Turmoil, Episode 1 – Emperors

Filed under: China, Economics, History — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Niall Ferguson
Published on Jan 31, 2018

Niall Ferguson shows how the vast apparatus of the Chinese state has always been called on to subjugate individual freedom to the higher goal of unity. Ferguson also examines how, on the other hand, centralized control produces tensions that threaten to destroy the country.

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