"If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain."

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We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

— Julian Barnes