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Notes reporting Chinese dynasty with some misgivings (8)

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I believe the answer is:

handouts

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'notes reporting chinese dynasty with some misgivings' is the definition.
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'chinese dynasty with some misgivings' is the wordplay.
'chinese dynasty' becomes 'han' (I've seen this in another clue).
'with some misgivings' becomes 'douts' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'han'+'douts'='HANDOUTS'

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(Other definitions for handouts that I've seen before include "Printouts or leaflets given, to accompany a lecture, perhaps" , "Notes distributed in class - thousand of them" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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