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Chapter 1

Yellow Emperor is considered the founding father of China.

• But didn't actually create China, just got it reunited. China was already there.
• Similar thing happens with Confucious.
  • Wanted to reestablish the principles of Harmony of the golden age.

Chapter 4

In 1715, the Chinese let the Russian establish a Russian orthodox mission in Beijing. Eventually became an embassy.

McCartney mission

• British were the "red haired barbarians"

Kim Il-sung

Chapter 5

July, 1953: Armistice agreement

• Settling on the same prewar line of the 38th parallel.
• Everybody lost this war.
  • Mao was victorious in that he proved that China was a military power and center of Asian revolution.
    • Mao framed the war as an effort to put America back in its place.
  • Biggest loser was Stalin, who had started the whole thing by giving green light to Kim Il-sung, then black mailing Mao into the war.
• Relationship between China and USSR only deteriorated from then on.

Chapter 6

Otto von Bismarck