Mongols, Mings, Manchus, Mao
I am China--hear me roar!
When Chairman Mao argued for a "permanent revolution," he probably didn't have in mind the sort of revolution under way in the capital of communist China. Today, brand-new BMWs share crowded streets with donkey carts and bicyclists; Stalinist slogans sit side by side with Starbucks.
How long will the Communist Party continue the capitalist party? No one knows for sure. But we do know how Beijing got to this point. It all started 40 centuries ago. . . .
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