Ep 78 - Gu Hongming and Bonnie Prince Tuan with Lee Moore
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The Battle of Tien-Jin
The Jacobites in both their risings, I believe, gave quite a solid kick to the hornet's nest at the very least before getting stopped. So Bonny Dundee is most famous for a victory, not a defeat. There's also an amazing spot at Killie Cranky called Soldier's Leap, where it's like a big gap between two rocks, two rocks over a drop, and then some water. And that spot, the legend goes, a government soldier was fleeing the Jacobites, and he leapt right over the little gorge to the other rock in his almost superhuman leap. It's sort of an ambivalence there, where you have the body, or the nominal
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