Who hasn't heard of the sagacity of Confucius or of the long line of dynasties of China.Their names begin to ring like a Chinese alphabet: Xia, Shang, Chou, Qing, Han, Tang, Ming, Xin, Song.
The ephemeral splendour of China centuries before the Communists put up a new mot -d'ordre,
In the resplendent palaces were marble balustrades and tasselled
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