Wuyou Temple, Leshan

Spitting Fire!

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June 14th 2007
"You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me." (Ba Jin, shouted out at the end of a televised public humiliation in the People's Stadium of Shanghai, during the "Cultural Revolution" on the 20th June 1968). Ba Jin who was one of the greatest of China's 20th century writers was born in Chengdu in 1904 ... 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