Diary of Witness to Paris Uprising Found
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From Reuters
BEIJING — The diary of a Chinese mandarin who witnessed the 1871 Paris Commune uprising by French workers has been found in a Beijing warehouse.
Chong Hou, the author, was China’s foreign trade minister under the Qing Dynasty and was on a diplomatic mission to France at the time of the socialist rebellion.
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