If you're heading for the water today, or staycationing by the pool, you'll need something to read, right?

In November 1944 Kazakhs, “White Russians,” and Tartars revolted in I-ning in western Sinkiang. They organized a government at I-ning by setting up a Local Maintenance Committee with An Te-hai, a Turki (the Turki, Moslems, are the largest population group in Sinkiang), as Chairman, with the reported aim of establishing an East Asia Turki Republic.

Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.

These sojourners were quite a homogeneous group in language, culture, family, and socioeconomic status. Practically all of them were peasants from the arid Szeyap (i.e., four districts) area southwest of Canton, the capital city of the province of Kwangtung.