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King Wen, who ruled for decades, nurtured the state’s power, implemented strong economic policies to foster the people’s welfare, and fashioned a strong reputation for Virtue.
Ralph D Sawyer • The Art of War
Hui warlord from Gansu, Ma Zhongying, who crushed the republic (Forbes 1986:112-27; Millward 2007:200-206).
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
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China followed a fundamentally different path but with no less extraordinary results. It has been some seventy years since China’s Communists gained control, and in that time the country’s annual economic output has grown from under $100 million to more than $13 trillion. Under Mao Zedong, China was an economic basket case, having experienced the w
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Yang's successor, Jin Shuren,
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Wilhelm quickly found out that the perpetual dividing factors of religion, class, geography, culture and ethnicity – to name but a few – could not just be erased by the sheer force of personality and royal charisma he undoubtedly thought he possessed. Socialists kept on striking, Catholics still looked at the Prussian king with suspicion, and Polis
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