One response is that China currently has a lot more than it’s historical boundaries, to the extent that those can even be properly defined, given that it hasn’t truly been a continuous country. See https://medium.com/@millwarj/we-need-a-new-approach-to-teaching-modern-chinese-history-we-have-lazily-repeated-false-d24983bd7ef2 for a recent article I read that discusses it.
One response is that China currently has a lot more than it’s historical boundaries, to the extent that those can even be properly defined, given that it hasn’t truly been a continuous country. See https://medium.com/@millwarj/we-need-a-new-approach-to-teaching-modern-chinese-history-we-have-lazily-repeated-false-d24983bd7ef2 for a recent article I read that discusses it.