How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… 21 million wounded, the war was the bloodiest in European history until that second conflagration on the continent … one predominant but highly ideological version of European history – popularised since the cold war – the world wars, … war was not, in fact, a profound rupture with Europe’s own history. Rather it was, as Liang Qichao, China’s foremost …