Sancho's, Nanjing

Inured to death

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November 27th 2011
Photos: …..inured; to habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection.....such a great word, it deserves to be in common currency. “Si le” is a great little Chinese idiom that easily translates into English, in fact we use exactly the same phrase, “to death”. Not as much though. In Chinese you can say, “E s ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more