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Chinese Portraits
Toksvig, Signe | August 14, 1929 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Fièvre Jaune," by Simone Téry. Téry begins her book with a backward glance at Ireland and a sort of sight that all revolutions cannot be so devoted, comprehensible and successful. She spent a year in China and of course she is well aware that the "facts" in that country are not politely yielded up to strangers with a year or with many years. There are landscapes in her book, endless plains dotted with cemeteries, cities in ruins and cities with an incredible multiplicity of human beings. There are horrors of famine and flaying torture and large anonymous mass executions.

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FIEVRE Jaune (Book); TERY, Simone; REVOLUTIONS; TORTURE; DICTATORSHIP; CHINA
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