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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 3

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“ The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to ...more ”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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“ Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. ...more ”
― Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

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