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The past and present of China, covering several millennia, naturally cannot be squeezed into a single paper, even if it consists of several parts in a sequence. Part I only embarked on offering a brief survey of the complex history of China extending over millennia, up to the establishment of the united republic. The present-day China could be hardly understood without the summary of the most important...