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dern Chinese foreign policy figures - and a member of that early revolutionary generation. Huang was, in a sense, heir to the Warring States diplomat Su Qin, whom Master Nan had encouraged me to study. Huang had penetrated the madness of Mao’s revolutionary era to see the possibility of a different order,

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, his voice rising. “This is going to be hard.” Master Nan inhaled on his cigarette and waited a moment. “If you work, though, maybe you can be like Su Qin,” he said, “the man who wrestled 20 years of peace out of 300 years of war.” Su Qin was the hero of the Warring States period during which China coll

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l enough that it could be turned with equal ease to calligraphy or warfare. This sort of effort took time. It demanded that knife-in-the-leg focus of Su Qin. And it demanded faith that some sort of enlightenment would in fact take place. For this, they had thousands of years of history as proof. Once this