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This is exactly what I was looking for in terms of an introduction to Chinese history that could point me to topics/eras to read about in more depth.

The writing is decently clear but there are tons of punctuation errors throughout! There are both extraneous and missing commas seemingly on every other page…

I like the parts where Woolf reflects on the passage of time

Although it is very very clear that this was written with one person in mind; this fact is hammered home quite brutally by the end notes which I try to resist reading. Perhaps this detracts a bit from my first reading, especially because I’m reading it more for pleasure than enlightenment, etc. etc.