China Rhyming

'History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme' - Mark Twain. A gallimaufry of random China history and research interests

Thursday, November 20, 2008

A friend sent me some photos of the medals awarded to his grandfather by the Chinese government between the wars.

The Order of Wen-Hu (Order of Striped Tiger) looks cool top

The Order of the Precious Star of the Double Dragon is nice too

Last is the Order of the Golden Grain

Paul French: Shanghai; As someone who divides their time pretty evenly writing about China now and China back then this seemed like a place to throw all the interesting bits that fall through the cracks somehow and never get used anywhere else. It's basically the stuff that doesn't get used in my writing about modern China or in the books I do about old China - i.e. probably of little interest to anyone but me and therefore ideally suited to an obscure blog up a dark cul-de-sac of the Internet.

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