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• ZAPU clearly designed for Ndebele people

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 140
  By Clapperton Mavhunga AFTER 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party defeated Chiang Kai-shek and banished him to Taiwan, Mao’s regime was in the habit of establishing and promoting these ‘mushroom’ parties that created the facade that China tolerated dissent. In reality, these were ‘dummies’ that operated ...
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• The puzzle of the missing Buddhist monk

  
  2ndlook - View From A Square Prism — Authority: 99
  Will it be Chinese mafia next? Organized crime was rampant in China before the communists took over in 1949, but was largely extinguished in the decades afterward by the totalitarian Maoist state. It has flourished since reforms began in the late 1970s. Chinese police receive small salaries but enjoy almost ...
  2 days ago

• Taipei Adventure – An Overview

  
  About Writing - The Personal Blog of An Aspiring Writer — Authority: 124
  The sensational Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei...for the record this photo was too nice to have been taken by me I’ve been in Taipei for a whole week now, but have yet to put up any posts about it yet. Too busy – too much to do, too much to buy, too much to eat! I thought I would kick things off with ...
  3 days ago

• Grandpa’s Sermons

  
  Sheep Droppings — Authority: 114
  I recently read some newspaper articles about my grandpa’s Baptist Church in Belton,  MO.  He was only there from August of 1921 to December 1922, but he published articles in the paper about the church events often.  Rev. Roy Osborn Chaney started out as a newspaper reporter in Rochester, NY and then wrote for ...
  5 days ago

• Man’s Fate?

  
  (Mis)readings — Authority: 114
  I read Andre Malraux’s Man’s Fate , one of those novels I’ve really wanted to read for the longest time, some time ago. It’s supposed to be one of the best fictional accounts of the Chinese revolution, the blurbs read, with a focus on the failed Shanghai Insurrection of 1927, which was brutally crushed by ...
  2 weeks ago

• December 12 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 526
  On December 12: 627 Battle of Nineveh : A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II ’s Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh . Heraclius and his son Heraclius Constantine on a Roman coin 1769 French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville first sights New ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Stomach Remembers

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 423
  The Far East is a glittering prize for SA wine exporters, a bit like a bibulous Maneki Neko, one of those fat red plastic cats sitting next to the till, waving profits in through the door. But one that is unlikely to be won as long as we describe our offerings as “redolent of [...]No related posts.Related posts ...
  4 weeks ago

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