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L is for … Leaders
China has just changed its leadership team, at the 18th Party Congress in Beijing. The photograph below, a favourite of ours, shows three Premiers in waiting, and the widow of one just deceased. Here we have Wang Jingwei (second left); … Continue reading
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Tagged leader, politician, revolutionaries
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Sun Ke reading on a wooden chaise longue
Sun Ke (Sun Fo) (1891-1973), was a Nationalist politician and, briefly, in 1932, Premier of the Republic of China, as well as an educational reformer. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen. In this informal portrait (Fu-n119) by Fu Bingchang, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Foo, Fu, furniture, leisure, politician, politics, reading
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