tl;dr - I just published a book, China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want You to Read , looking at the history behind the hottest China-related topics that are driving US politics discussions: Will Beijing invade Taiwan and push Washington into a war with China? Why did the US Congress essentially ban trade with Xinjiang? Is there really a genocide occurring in Xinjiang? Why is Congress, with HR Bill 733, considering the repeal of Hong Kong’s special trade status? The book discusses all these things, and does so in a way that makes it understandable to normal people, without all the academic mumbojumbo. AMA.

Hey reddit, my name is Lee Moore, I have a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon, I worked as an adjunct professor there, teaching Taiwanese and Chinese literature and film, and I occasionally write for The Economist . I also host the Chinese Literature Podcast .

I just published a book called China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want You to Read . The book does a deep dive into the history of the four China-related topics driving US politics discussions: Taiwan, Xinjiang, the Chinese economy and Hong Kong. How did Taiwan become the Pentagon’s biggest headache? Why did Congress ban imports from Xinjiang? The book looks at these four topics and how they became the hot messes that American politicians are struggling to figure out.

And I do it with a shit-stirring sense of humor that is meant to reach readers who would never normally pick up a book about China. The book has a chapter titled, “The Most Important Motherfucker in Taiwanese History,” discussing the 1670’s sex scandal that rocked the island and may lead to a war between the US and China. In the section of the book detailing Xinjiang’s bloody history, the book has a drinking game where, every time someone is beheaded, the reader is encouraged to do a shot.

The book discusses the China-related topics driving US politics. Here are some of the things I discuss that touch on US politics

Taiwan:

The US has hinted that it will defend Taiwan if China decides to invade. Beijing says that Taiwan has, since ancient times, been Chinese. China’s claim is nonsense. No power in China controlled Taiwan before 1683, two years after Pennsylvania, its 12th of 13 colonies, was established. China’s claim to have owned Taiwan in ancient times has zero historical evidence supporting it.

Today, the US Marines are training to invade southern Taiwan in case of a Chinese invasion. This is not the first time they were there. In 1867, the US Marines twice invaded Taiwan.

One of the two official languages of America’s 50th state is distantly Taiwanese. Five millennia ago, a group of Taiwanese people left the island and conquered the Pacific and Indian Oceans. After several thousand years, they arrived in Hawaii. Indigenous Hawaiians are the descendants of a people who left Taiwan five thousand years ago. Taiwan and Hawaii have a connection that few American…

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