China, the culture and country, are frequently discussed ad infinitum online and elsewhere. With people getting all hot under the collar as to what actually is 'Chinese culture', and the way they feel Chinese people should behave... or not behave as the case may be.
Yet without knowing how their culture developed it's rather a moot point. So, as every good Chinese student knows, to understand the present, we must go to the past. A long, long time into the past.... Brace yourselves, as this is going to take a while (it's to be expected of culture with 3,200 years of actual, provable, recorded history)... I'll promise you one thing though, if you manage to read the whole thing, you'll understand things about Chinese culture that even native Chinese have trouble articulating in one fell swoop.
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