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History may or may not itself, (The Propellerheads suggest it does, I disagree but I think it comes close enough every once in awhile to scare the bejeezus out of the human race.)  But like flu epidemics and movies starring Colin Farrell, certain rhetori... ...full story at Granite Studio

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21 Apr 07 visit Old Japanese soldiers recalled Nanking  »  YouTube videoThe aim to post this clip is not to arouse hate against today's Japanese people. Friendship is always what we want. But today some Japanese politicians tried to cover the truth. History is history - no body can change! The first soldier said on the way...
19 Jan 07 visit History books get the axe; another Zhang Yihe title falls  »  Danwei Mainland edition of Past Stories of Actors by Zhang Yihe. The Baidu news feed coughed up an article this afternoon from Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao that's a report on a South China Morning Post story concerning eight books that were banned by GAPP this...
07 Sep 09 visit Weihsien Compound - A Prison Camp for Expats  »  China Expat         Everything's such a nuisance: supermarket lines, slow traffic, nothing good to watch. You know what would help a lot? A few years in an internment camp. Not one of those horrific ones from history we see so much of in movies, o...
09 Oct 08 visit Police shoot hostage taker to death in Urumqi  »  Shanghai Daily POLICE shot a hostage taker to death and saved all six hostages early this morning at a supermarket in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China News Service reported on its Website today. The...
13 Aug 09 visit WTO rules against import restrictions on books and other media  »  Danwei The Washington Post reports on a WTO ruling in response to a US complaint that China was unfairly restricting the import of books, movies, and recordings: The WTO ruling said China's regulations, which largely channel distribution of foreign...
01 Oct 07 visit Scene at the Tiananmen this morning  »  Shanghaiist Today is China's 58th National Day. Thousands braved the rain this morning at the Tiananmen Square for the flag-raising ceremony. From what they're wearing, it looks like the weather up north has turned cold already. Also looks like it's mostly youngsters...

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