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Topic: Cold Front Passing Hokkai
Since last post, on October 19, the World has turned at a furious pace. For only the second time in their 125-year-old history, the Phillies of Philadelphia, a National League Baseball team, has mastered all opposition, won 11 of 14 post-season games, and become Champions of United States Baseball. It is still called the World Series in spite of the fact that professional baseball league play now takes place in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, England, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and I've probably left out some. Whatever. The Phillies are Champions. World bleeping Champions in the deathless words of star second baseman Chase Utley.
And Max Blue is under orders from the Marvelous Miranda to clean up his blog. So here goes:
When last we looked at China history it was about the tumultuous 1930s and nothing was more tumultuous than the storied LONG MARCH. If Chiang Kai-shek had been able to stop it, to prevent Mao Tse-tung from completing the 3,700 mile, 370 day trek from Kiangsi province to Yunnan province in the mountainous northwest, the history of China would have been different. God knows he tried. Mao and Chu teh began the march with 100,000 troops and their families, only 7,000 survived. Only the tough survived. The stout-hearted. "Start me with 10 who are stout-hearted men, and I'll soon give you 10,000 more." The Chinese Communists, still getting help from their Soviet comrades, gathered themselves in Yunnan and girded for a new beginning.
In 1939 when the Japanese undertook a full-scale invasion of China, ransacking, pillaging, and brutalizing civilian populations, Mao Tse-tung, and Chiang Kai-shek came to a reluctant and uncertain agreement to stop fighting each other and concentrate on ridding the beleagured Middle Kingdom of the ruinous Japanese menace. This is where the novel COLD FRONT PASSING HOKKAIDO picks up the story.
