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missing Sun Yat-Sen, the Flowers of War and final update

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December 19th 2011
This will likely be my last blog from China/Nanjing -- although I might sneak another one in once I get home if you are lucky should I miss something. Anyway this was to be my penultimate day in Nanjing so I thought I had better try and cross off a a few things that I had been too slack to get around to doing. I was all intent on making first off the Nanjing Memorial Hall to what the Japanese did ... 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