here goes the ignorant laowai

[arrantophelia]

Okay, if you ask me, I'd debate the "long, lustrous history" of China that people talk about all the time. China wasn't even unified until Qin Shi Huang Di. Granted, that's still a long history, but certainly not 3500+ years, either. Plus, I don't understand the continuity granted throughout all the dynastic changes. Most problematic for me is the

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[mollete]

Well. My long rant on xanga was more fueled by the ignorant, apathetic kids at Valley (there had been an editorial in the school newspaper a week earlier about how Shakespeare was irrelevant and not worth reading), and in all honesty I myself don't have anything which resembles a detailed knowledge of Chinese history, but I'll try to comment on what I do know