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Modern studies of civil--military relations recognise that the military is separate from civil society, with its own norms and values, principles of organizatio
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The Talent of Shu reconstructs the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of Qiao Zhou, a noted classicist, historian, and of
