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@jwaaaap I started reading God's Chinese Son (about the Taiping Rebellion) and it was good but also the actual facts were so depressing I stopped. That is my ambivalent recommendation for you.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jwaaaap Although in more wholehearted recommendations: Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book. A book of musings from a poet & court lady from Japan, written around 1000. It really gives you a sense of the everyday, which can be hard to find looking back across history.Look on archive.org