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2015: Position of Honor on Left in China, Right Internationally

Differences in protocol are interesting.  Typically the visiting leader walks alongside the home leader in a review of the troops. If many leaders arrive at once, they might review with troops all alone. In the case of the recent China-Russia-India-DPRK … Continue reading

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Kong Lingping’s Maoist Labor Camp Memoir XXIII: A Decade Spent Between Life and Death

Old Photographs 【老照片】 is a very popular series of books published in China since the mid 1990s (now publishing volume No. 118!) filled with pictures and short accounts   of both family and public lived history from the late 19th century onwards … Continue reading

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Hayashi Tadahiko’s 1946 Photo of Mother and Child in the Ruins

I saw this Hayashi Tadahiko (1918 – 1990) photo in an exhibit at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC last October and wondered about the scrawled graffiti about first love in the background. Today I came across a Japanese blog … Continue reading

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