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2 unusual facts about The Crippled Tree


The Crippled Tree

Of the coming to power of Chiang Kaishek in 1926, and the moving of the capital from Beijing to Nanjing - the book uses the older English transliterations that were then standard, Peking and Nanking.

How they were involved in putting down a revolt by the Hui people, Chinese Muslims who rebelled in sympathy with the great Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century.



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