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Page 137
... Chinese currency . Fishing birds perched on their carrying poles , en route to a new stream for business . Coolies carried buckets of the city's night soil out to the farms . China's Military Beanstalk Such is Kunming today , capital of ...
... Chinese currency . Fishing birds perched on their carrying poles , en route to a new stream for business . Coolies carried buckets of the city's night soil out to the farms . China's Military Beanstalk Such is Kunming today , capital of ...
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... Chinese Empire . Every year since then , on Independence Day , the Chinese in Kunming have staged celebrations of such colossal size and intense fervor that people come from miles around to witness them . Few celebrations in China ...
... Chinese Empire . Every year since then , on Independence Day , the Chinese in Kunming have staged celebrations of such colossal size and intense fervor that people come from miles around to witness them . Few celebrations in China ...
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... Chinese seldom drink except at meals , and you rarely see a drunken Chinese on the streets , for this sort of thing is frowned upon in Kunming . Because of its unusual location in western China , in comparative proximity to French ...
... Chinese seldom drink except at meals , and you rarely see a drunken Chinese on the streets , for this sort of thing is frowned upon in Kunming . Because of its unusual location in western China , in comparative proximity to French ...
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Across Tibet from India to China By Lt Col Ilia Tolstoy AUS | 169 |
Ali Goes to the Clinic By Herndon and Mary Hudson 764 | 357 |
Americans Stand Guard in Greenland By Andrew H Brown | 457 |
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