The Xi'an City Wall is the most complete city wall that has survived China's long history.

西安城墙是中国历史上保存最完整的城墙。

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Self-cultivation, is China's long history, the most important reason.

修身养性，才是中国悠久历史最重要的原因。

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The Silk is a symbol of China's long history, splendid culture and art.

丝绸是我国悠久历史、灿烂文化和精湛艺术的象征。

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But China's long history is also filled with moments when faith and pragmatism merged to create miracles.

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Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times.

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But there's a long history in China of foreign companies invited in to get an industry started and then pushed aside in favor of domestic firms.

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