The areas with longer duration of high temperature days were mainly distributed in the northeast of Chongqing, narrow section of Yangtze River valley (Fig. 1), such as Kaizhou district, Wanzhou district, and Wushan county.

brash colours; a brash perfume

Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.

Under subsequent democratic regimes, as we shall see, some of these features of the petrostate were to change, while others were intensified.