>In China, the tale of the legendary Great Yu’s heroic taming of floods and the subsequent founding of the Xia Dynasty continues to dominate mainstream scholarly narrative on the formation of China’s first state
There must be pressure on academics to hew to a "we are an ancient civilization" narrative.
Paper itself has:
>In China, the tale of the legendary Great Yu’s heroic taming of floods and the subsequent founding of the Xia Dynasty continues to dominate mainstream scholarly narrative on the formation of China’s first state
There must be pressure on academics to hew to a "we are an ancient civilization" narrative.