Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This wasn't simply a victory for sleight-of-hand politics, Vogel argues. The Cantonese, like all Chinese, hungered for material progress and a sense of national purpose-dreams that had fueled the revolution. As a veteran of that revolution, T'ao convinced the Cantonese he dreamed those same dreams, and on that basis they accepted...