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...like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, fighting for his love of freedom." A state-produced TV mini-series premiering in October will present the Dutch as scheming to divide China. In fact, they were ensconced in Indonesia, "with no plans for a big presence in Taiwan," says Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while and then said the hell with it." That's a piece of history unlikely to be portrayed on film. Beijing even plans to promote the film abroad. "We must let foreigners know that China's hero is not inferior to 007," declares Wang...
...whole structure of Chinese society becomes rather different starting in 1600," Kuhn says. "There is more contact with the outside world, and it becomes much more commercial, which has profound effects on how people live...
...process of change that we see today started a long time ago," Kuhn says...
...Kuhn is offering this course in place of History 1824. He says that History 1824 was originally intended to be an intermediate level course populated by undergraduate and graduate students. However, because undergraduates increasingly chose Core alternatives, last year the course was three-quarters graduate students and Kuhn began to modify the course for its new home in the Core, he says...
...only by confronting primary documents that students can get a sense of what historians have to deal with," Kuhn says...