The only thing that’s lame around here are your critical thinking skills.
Let's take a look at yours.
Oh, by all means, do tell what makes you such an authority on Chinese history?
Is that your idea of a scholarly rebuttal of an opposing point?
I'd like to see you cite where I stated that I had read a Cambridge History of China. Even though I have, I didn't state that. Obviously you lack critical reading skills.
Semantic nitpicking is your idea of critical thinking skills? The only thing you have offered as a source, other than Wikipedia, has been The Cambridge History of China. You now say you have read it which you are apparently telling us is some kind of revelation that you hadn't shared before. Therefore my thinking that you had was only an assumption on my part that had no reasonable basis? IOWs you expect to be able to put forth sources you haven't read and have your argument be perceived as credible.
Keep going. I couldn't possibly make you look more foolish than you are doing to yourself. ; )