Bill Hayton is an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and a journalist with BBC World News. He is the author of The South China Sea and Vietnam.
~~tag-text~~
A provocative account showing that 'China'—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-ol... SEE MORE