History Memes

In general, state-approved interpretations of Chinese history reject the idea that the expanse of land now covered by the CCP regime's territory was once a region occupied by diverse cultures who fought constantly for supremacy, there is instead a reconstructed continuity of one China that always exists, defending itself against invasion and insurrection, no matter which dynasties replace which. Places now seen as the core of China's identity were once home to nations that were as ethnically and culturally distinct from one another as they were from the ones in Korea and Japan, for much more of the region's history than is polite to discuss, but you wouldn't know it from the official narrative of a country that pays useless slobs 50¢ every time they claim nobody has ever been executed for speaking Manchu.