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Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot it and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
Source: The Seventh Son, vol. 2, China (1971; first published Feb. 1912).-- W E B Du Bois, (Feb 23 1868-1963), US writer, social reformer; He was prominent in the early movement for racial equality and helped create the NAACP, 1909.
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