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Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate
Episode: Lee Moore's China Backstory: Why Saying "History Proves" Actually Means "I Haven't Done the Reading"
Description: Lee Moore's new book challenges both Chinese state propaganda and Western pundits on Taiwan, Xinjiang, the Chinese economy, and Hong Kong with 1400 endnotes, and a drinking game for beheadings.A historian who writes about Ming emperors getting stabbed in the balls, a drinking game for beheadings in Xinjiang, and why almost everything politicians say about Taiwan’s history is wrong. Lee Moore joins Barbarians at the Gate to discuss his new book.In this episode, we talk with Lee Moore about China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want Y...