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Night Watch (Discworld, volume 29/City Watch, volume 6) by Terry Pratchett

A time-displaced cop struggles to protect history and the glorious revolution from a time-displaced psychopath, as well as from the cop's own better nature.
Night Watch (Discworld, volume 29/City Watch, volume 6) by Terry Pratchett
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But I think it's a mistake to try to read Interesting Times as riffing off of the real China when it's so obviously riffing off of low-information English Orientalist fantasies about China.