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Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many surveys of Mao's revolutionaries. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Klara and the Sun is Toy Story (together with the toy’s existential crisis) meets Never Let Me Go by way of one robot’s obsession with the Sun. As Klara enters Josie’s world, she gets to know more about humans and life, including its sorrows and unpredictability. Then comes Josie, a kind, but sick child. She is both puzzled by and interested in humans. Relying on and worshipping the Sun, Klara never misses an opportunity to catch its rays : “…the big thing, silently understood by us all, was the Sun and his nourishment”. 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