The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu

This is a really fascinating and enjoyable -if a little challenging- read and I would like to commend it to you:
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu | Lightspeed Magazine. I enjoyed the implicit examination of truth and regime and propaganda and the idea that there might be a long-game in such matters.I also enjoyed the glimpse into Chinese civilisation and the linguistic dimensions.
The background from the author's notes:

For more than 250 years, An Account of Ten Days at Yangzhou was suppressed in China by the Manchu emperors, and the Yangzhou Massacre, along with numerous other atrocities during the Manchu Conquest, was forgotten. It was only until the decade before the Revolution of 1911 that copies of the book were brought back from Japan and republished in China. The text played a small, but important, role in the fall of the Qing and the end of Imperial rule in China. I translated the excerpts used in this story.