Thread-topic: [EXLIBRIS-L] The long 18c (was RE: [EXLIBRIS-L] Selected Readings, No. 96)
I think history may well determine that it was the fall of the Gang of Four, and the ultimate triumph of Deng Xioaping's "socialism with Chinese characteristics", that began what looks from here to be the Chinese century. So, say, the Beijing Spring period, 1977. Though of course this departs from the overwhelming Eurocentrism of the terminology in question.
John Beekman
New Jersey Room
Jersey City Free Public Library
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Nope, the twentieth century ended in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin
Wall. From then it was less than two years before the US was at war in the
middle east. The end of the USSR was an anti-climax.
Ed Morman
Baltimore MD
*Through my lens, the 20th century ended 9-1-1.
Now it's "pre-emptive" war, and back to the Middle Ages.
Richard Ménec
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