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[[underlined]] Chapter XVI [[/underlined]] 352.

To the ancient capital of Ch'u, first surrounded, say the records, by a really substantial wall in the reign of king P'ing [[2 Chinese characters]] (528-516 B. C.) (319)
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(319) Dr. C. Li's book, [[underlined]] The Formation of the Chinese People [[/underlined]] (Cambridge, Mass., 1928), contains in Chapter III some very interesting data on the spread of the practice of building city-walls in ancient China.
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[[underlined]] Return to Shasi. [[/underlined]]

We returned to Shasi that afternoon, without special incident. At our inn we heard more of the gossip that had been coming to us ever since we left Shanghai, about the turn that events seemed likely to take in the political and military situation.  Rumors were flying about, assuming the while more and more definite shape, to the effect that the Cantonese or "Southern" forces, under the leadership of the ablest of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's followers, Gen. Chiang K'ai-shek [[3 Chinese characters]] (320), were planning to secure
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(320) The present "Generalissimo" against whose rule the Japanese have been waging war for some years past.
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control of the north also, and set up a unified government over all China. Such an attempt, undoubtedly for the good of the whole country though it was, must necessarily cause great disorder and turmoil, as well as wide-spread suffering, especially among the defenseless peasantry. Incidentally, the outlook in regard to our doing any effective digging began once more to assume an exceedingly dubious aspect.
That night Mr. Tung and I boarded the S.S. [[underlined]] Tungting [[/underlined]], and next morning resumed our voyage, bound for K'uei-fu [[2 Chinese characters]], a couple of hundred miles farther up the Yangtze.

[[underlined]] Country between Shasi and K'uei-fu [[/underlined]]
The approximately one hundred miles between Shasi and Ichang, at the entrance to the Gorges, are in general open and treeless. On the left or