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THE bridge... The one that separated the city of Canton from the international concessions.
those extraterritorial residences from which the Western merchants and diplomats so long
believed they could control (and ofiten merely squabbled over) the immense body of China.
from here, incredtlous huropeans contemplated the suicidal insurrection of 1927, saw the
workers battalions defeated by the Kuomintang forces, and learned that to save munitions,
the soldiers threw their prisoners in the river in bundles of ten