I honestly wish I could answer without feeling like I'm just talking out of my ass, it's hard to study Chinese history when most western sources will say "Mao came to power and then killed millions, then he killed millions, then he did some reforms, then he killed millions, etc etc."
Don't want to derail the thread but if anyone could recommend a Chinese history book written from a ML point of view I'd be super greatful.
Interesting question.
I honestly wish I could answer without feeling like I'm just talking out of my ass, it's hard to study Chinese history when most western sources will say "Mao came to power and then killed millions, then he killed millions, then he did some reforms, then he killed millions, etc etc."
Don't want to derail the thread but if anyone could recommend a Chinese history book written from a ML point of view I'd be super greatful.
It doesn't help that China didn't say a single fucking thing about it until the 1980's when Deng was revising Mao Zedong Thought.
the governance of china is translated into english and has audio books, xi goes into the history of china