It's Daoism, but not as we know it

By a winding route, we have almost returned to north Shanxi where this survey began. (Another way of looking at it would be that we have roughly followed the route of the Communist armies through the northwest base-areas and Hebei, ending with a final push towards Beijing, discussed in Appendix 1.) What can we learn from considering the whole vast area of north China discussed in this book?