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Living the life in #Beijing
"I've been blastin' and laughin' so long, that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone"
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I often wonders why there are so few public libraries in Beijing...
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You can even say it was very rare in China then. But high level governement officials in China are not exactly common people, are they? Kroutchev was not happy about the heat and humidity (come to Beijing in the summer, you'll know!), and famously about the mosquitoes as well 😜
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_con...
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apnews.com/united-state...
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Already in 2017....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...
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"Veteran FBI agent Terry Husk reopens the long-vacant field office in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ord...
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Definitely.
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If completed, this building will be the 6th tallest in the World. But it's a big if. Work stopped here shortly after topping out.
That was a decade ago, & it has yet to restart.
The surrounding structures are beginning to rust; the branding on the walls is crumbling. Hard to know what comes next.
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"Carrying high the flag of Trump's Thought for the New Era"
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Another example of a street name changed during the Cultural Revolution in #Beijing.
Will we see this kind of thing in the US?
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The first ‘independently’ designed and built railway was actually the Peking-Kalgan line in 1905-1909 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing...), by Zhou Tianyou, who worked many years with Claude Kinder en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhan_Ti...
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« The picture shows the railway beginning operation » Actually it was taken in June 1882, during the visit of Court officials organized by the Kaiping Mine head Tang Jingxing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_Ki... in order to show the innocuity of the train
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« The first railway independently built by Chinese » Actually it was built under the direction of British engineer Claude W. Kinder, who also supervised the construction of a steam locomotive which was christened "The Rocket of China" (hpcbristol.net/visual/PC27-...)
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« total length of 11 km » It was actually less than 10 km
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Pretty much everything is wrong in the notice.
« The Qing government built... ». Actually it opposed it for many years, and it was finally built by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (backed by the Viceroy of Zhili, Li Hongzhang)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiping...
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hmmm let's not forget that many in the Chinese military have purchased their position, which is not the case in the US
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According to some legends, Mao was devastated by her death, so much so he wrote poems about it...
Well, not so sure about that: 2 years before she died, despite still married to her, Mao got married to He Zizhen, his 3rd wife… (but not the last…) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Zizhen
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Contrary to her now famous husband, she died very young at 29. Why so young, you ask?
Clearly not important for the public to know that she was executed by the Guomingdang in Changsha…
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So what is missing ?
Oh, almost nothing, just a few unimportant details.
Like, she was Mao’s wife for about 10 years and they had 3 children (now that’s a « close friend » indeed)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Ka...
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Who was she? The notice tells us…. Not much :
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Indeed, despite it being used in TCM...
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Wondering if thoses netizens know she's gay, her partner not German, and they live in Switzerland...