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Title: an important argument
Review: I'd say the treatment of Meisner, Dirlik etc are a bit too polemical at times, but this does NOT make Chan's arguments any less true. PLus, it'd be foolish to think lefty scholars like these are somehow by nature free of eurocentrism, or beyond criticism on political and scholastic grounds. Chan makes a powerful argument in defense of Chinese MArxism, and in theoretical/general terms, and I for one found his critiques of sinologists very strong. It will not persuade them, of course, but that is too tall an order, just as Chan rejects the idea of an objective, unbiased scholarship. The book is short on history proper, but then it is an intellectual history. A good argument to have around.
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