The most defining factor of a Chinese leadership generation is its historical background.

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The festive ritual yields a strong sense of continuity and historical awareness for its participants, evoking historical events and legends passed on from generation to generation.

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He wrote as well as anyone since Thomas Macaulay and was a master of the historical essay, a hero to a generation of schoolboys who were raised on his controversies over the rise of the gentry and the origins of the second world war.

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But he concedes that a coming generation of savers--kids who grew up texting on cellphones--may finally change that historical pattern.

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But I would propose an exemption to the a promise is a promise rule, and that's the immortal-genius-a-person-of-historical-importance exemption, very much akin to your put-it-away-for-a-generation.

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