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15 minutes of fame: Tsiang Ting-fu, Chinese historian and diplomat

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Jungtingfor's Life Story

In some senses, jungtingfor's life is very untypical. For any one to reach the kindof as he did, you know, ambassador tof the soviet union, or ambassador to the u. N very few people in any country get to do that. And i wouldn't want to suggest that this kind of pathway was open to anything, even like, more than a small minority of people in china at that time. You had to have certain level of educational support, a certain level off ability to a make your case and then get supported. He ended both in a position being something of a critic of his own government, but also, you might say,

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