第284页 “坐寇”

这里缺漏了一整段：
即使是好皇帝，在如此辽阔的帝国中，要想得到他的注意简直是缘木求鱼。
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然而，法治和政治责任制在中国是不存在的。

省略号……对应的部分如下：
In certain ways, things are not all that different in contemporary China. Instead of an emperor, there is a Chinese Communist Party sitting at the top of the government hierarchy, keeping watch over a vast and complex bureaucracy that rules well over a billion people. Like the eunuch spy network, the party hierarchy constitutes a structure parallel to that of the government, monitoring it and reporting abuses. The quality of the bureaucracy, particularly in its upper reaches, is high; the Chinese leadership has been able to guide the country through a miraculous economic transformation in the decades after 1978 that few other governments could have pulled off.