a diseaseful climate
We need to cultivate our own gardens, to “unweed” our own “seed-beds” before we presume to colonize the world.
The strategic Dawan Ch’eng was taken, the district of Fu-k’ang — some twenty-five miles north-east of the capital — fell into rebel hands, and in the neighbouring district of San-to-pao an estimated 900 Han Chinese were killed, whilst large stocks of rice which would normally have provisioned Urumchi were captured and burned.
Seen from this perspective, the anomaly may be the twentieth century, with its attempt to impose an alien concept of ‘nation’ on the cosmopoleis which had taken root there. The Thai-ruled cosmopoleis in the northern half of the peninsula were also known for their intense variety of trading groups. The story is well known of how ideas of race and nation made their impact on these extremely diverse cosmopoleis in the 20ᵗʰ century.
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