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the Central Kingdom. The scale of the undertaking is all the more astonishing that it is quite close to some well-known world events of modern times that shaped China’s predicament until the present day. The article of this section, by Thierry Meynard, Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, deals in great detail with one important item. The author explains the not so well-known troubled circumstances that surrounded, in 1692, the Edict of Tolerance (of the Christian religion) granted by Kangxi at the insistence of the Jesuits. This is an instance of the tensions existing between Manchus to win “the Mandate of Heaven” and Han literati to secure the perpetuation of Confucian traditions.
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