Talk:The Penguin History of Modern China
Latest comment: 2 months ago by Hey man im josh in topic Did you know nomination
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A fact from The Penguin History of Modern China appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Hey man im josh talk 18:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
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- ... that The Penguin History of Modern China profiled the Christian General, whose army moved to the beat of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"?
- Source: Righter, Rosemary (2008-05-30). "The Penguin History of Modern China by Jonathan Fenby. The Times review by Rosemary Righter: China's tortuous history still weighs heavily on its shoulders". The Times. Archived from the original on 2024-06-18. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
The article notes: "Fenby excels at weaving the strands of his complex narrative into heroic and more often harrowing tales. There are sharp pen portraits of the heroes and (mostly) villains of the piece: exotic monsters such as the Dog Meat General, or the Christian General whose men marched to the tune (but not the words) of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, but also leading figures such as Sun Yatsen and Zhou Enlai - the first of whom emerges as a disorganised lightweight, the second as a ruthless accomplice to Mao’s crimes."
Cunard (talk) 07:13, 18 June 2024 (UTC).
- I’ll review this. Thriley (talk) 21:53, 18 June 2024 (UTC)