Conflicts in China, 1930s

The Long March (1934-1935) and the Japanese occupation (1931-1939)

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Variations around “The Long March” Serial no. 3, theme 5 Artist: Julio Le Parc

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“Evicted From Farm, Take to Highway,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 26, 1932. Page 5. ---- Family Refuse Help Enroute From Gananoque — Little Tots Walking ---- Gananoque, Oct. 26— Giving Kingston as their destination and refusing all offer of a lift there or assistance of any kind, a party of seven persons, which included an elderly lady, two small girls of six and seven, a boy of six, a girl of twelve, and two boys of about sixteen and seventeen, were seen by a Whig-Standard representative on Highway No. 2 about eight miles west of Gananoque at ten o'clock yesterday mornnig. The same party, it is understood, were seen travelling west along the county roads north of Lansdowne on Monday where rumor had it that they were evicted from their farm. 

Commiseration was felt for the party by many who witnessed their plight, with the little tots bravely trying to keep up the pace set by the older members who seemed anxious to make as rapid progress as possible. 

At 11 a.m., they reached the Silver Slipper Inn about half way between Gananoque and Kingston, where they stopped to enquire the time. James Wood, proprietor of the Inn, insisted that the party come in and have some food, although they were very diffident about entering and accepting his offer of help and had to be assured several times that then would be no charge. However, they went in and after hastily eating the meal prepared for them, rushed out and continued their trek westward, refusing the offer of a lift to Kingston from both Mr. and Mrs. Wood and the Whig-Standard reporter, who had made a vain effort to secure the names of the unfortunates and the ultimate object of rendering assistance. Not content to see them depart on such a long journey with the little ones, without making one more attempt to help them, Mr. and Mrs. Wood and The Whig-Standard man followed the party a short distance up the road and repeated their offer of a lift to Kingston, in the hope that the children might be saved the long hike. However, the marchers continued on their way, the elderly lady saying that her husband was meeting her. 

Returning to the Silver Slipper, Mr. and Mrs. Wood and the reporter discussed the oddity of the situation for a moment after which the reporter drove to within seven miles of Kingston without finding a trace of the walkers. Whether they had accepted a lift from someone else in the face of their persistent refusal of Mr. and Mrs. Woods and the reporter, or whether they had taken to the woods to wait for the protecting cover of darkness before continuing on their way is not known, but their disappearance was complete.

Why do SpaceX rockets look so bad? They're not cool! The Saturn V looked cool. The Space Shuttle looked cool. The Russian Soyuz and the Chinese Long March rockets look cool, as do their respective Soyuz and Taingong capsules. The SpaceX Starship looks like a little kid drew it after watching old cartoons. It looks a 4th grade science diorama made out of paper towel rolls and tin foil. It looks like a bottle rocket you'd fill with a garden hose and a bike pump. Did any actual engineers design it, or did the muskrat copy some concept art from the studio that owns Flash Gordon?

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I guess it only took over 21 years, but finally (after cutting out some early episodes such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion and skipping a good chunk of the stuff between Guandu and Chibi) The Ravages of Time has barely made it past the first half of the story (chronology-wise that’s still close to a decade before the end of Han) in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

But to get a decent look at how drawn-out late-stage Ravages can be (and not simply because of action scenes which frequently get skipped or interrupted, but more due to the sprawling subplots and convoluted schemes), during the Chibi arc Ravages covered roughly 10 chapters of the Romance (41-50) in 8 volumes (48-55, 47 is technically part of the same arc but is an abridged rendering of subplots in earlier chapters of the Romance), and despite cutting out and revamping several subplots the result is still lengthy because the replacement content is similarly huge. More surprisingly, the scramble for Jingzhou after Chibi only took around 7 chapters in the Romance (51-57) but Ravages extends the drama to 2 arcs of 6 volumes each (56-61, 62-67) plus a third arc of 2 volumes (68-69) featuring an original subplot.

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China has made remarkable strides in space exploration over the past few decades, launching a series of missions that have captured the world’s attention. However, there have been some failures along the way, and China has experienced its fair share of setbacks and disappointments. One of China’s earliest space failures occurred in 1995, when the country attempted to launch its first Long March…

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Once you stop thinking about queer people's labels as strict indications of what's in their pants and who they do/don't bed and instead view queer people's labels as how they interact with the world, you'll find that you'll get along with queer people better and treat them better, I think.

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Pac: Oh no...

Mike: Hey Pac.

I can't believe Mine and Mike kissed while cosplaying Fit and Pac in front of Pac LMAOOOOO, the poor guy got so red.

'Romantic Doctor Master Kim3' wraps up Long March...ends with last photo shot on 24th

HENRY CAVILL as Gus March-Phillipps THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2024) dir. Guy Ritchie

in their natural habitats

the long march and the slow burn of the ravages of time

attentive readers are aware at this point that The Ravages of Time has persisted (and is still ongoing) for over 2 decades as the longest-running 3K comic adaptation (as of today, managing to cover some developments in the halfway point of the standardized edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and it only took 73 volumes to match the novel’s 60 out of 120 chapters), though due to its slower publication schedule it trails behind Kingdom (which started 5 years later) when it comes to the number of chapters

this raises some questions as to how long the series can go (or rather, how far its composer can go in the years ahead even taking into account that Ravages would likely not reach the end of the three kingdoms), so this post will try to come up with a few projections based on recent trends

now assuming that Ravages would mostly stick to the current 7 chapters per volume format (the arrangement early on used to be 9 chapters per volume, then 8 in the middle, before settling to 7 sometime after the Chibi arc), by the time Ravages reaches the 1000th chapter (currently it has 571 chapters not counting the 3 side stories in 73 volumes) the series could have something like 998 chapters in 134 volumes (571+427, 73+61)

as for how long it takes to reach this far (assuming Chen Mou can stay healthy past 60 in 2030 or assuming regional or global crises won’t compromise the publication of Ravages), this is trickier to evaluate, so more stipulations would have to be presented to come up with some scenarios

so far one can safely estimate that in recent years 2-3 Ravages volumes have been published per year (thus we can extrapolate further that the annual output is somewhere between 14 and 21 chapters irregularly serialized in 2-3 week intervals with occasional delays), and if one further posits for the sake for simplification that Ravages would reach 578 chapters by the end of this year, the road to 998 (578+420) can take as short as until 2042 (21 chapters in 3 volumes per year for 20 years with Chen Mou at age 72) or as long as until 2052 (14 chapters in 2 volumes per year for 30 years with Chen Mou at age 82)

note that even if Ravages does reach 1000 (and this already a bit of a reach to put it mildly), it’s hard to tell how much stuff the series would be able to cover by then, and I am not at all confident that the story would be able to reach the end of Han at the 30th anniversary on 2031 (note too that it’s not even the duels or battles or the various subplots from the novel that slow things down too much, rather it’s how Ravages insists on making every step of the way part of a very convoluted scheming game, with a bunch of dramatic moments sprinkled in for good measure)