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A tragic peasant rebellion, abridged for today’s readers

One-third of the text is cut out of an updated edition of ‘Li Zicheng’ (李自成) by Yao Xueyin (姚雪垠), because today’s readers don’t need the didacticism, errors, and ideology of the original.

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