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Duke Kong Greeting Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart at Qufu, China 1903 This extraordinary photograph illuminates the meeting between two remarkable men - Duke Kong and Stewart Lockhart. Lockhart was the British commissioner administering Weihaiwei, leased from the Chinese in the province of Shandong. He was one of the first westerners that Duke Kong met, and this appears to be the moment when he, and his only European supporter, Captain Barnes, arrived. The Duke has evidently come to meet them with an offer of beer after a long, dusty ride and is looking over his glass at Lockhart with evident interest and pleasure. Here the two men are connecting on an attractive, human level, arguably humanising the tedium and arrogance of imperial ambitions. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/f/artist/ah-fong/object/duke-kong-greeting-sir-james-haldane-stewart-lockhart-at-qufu-china-pgpla-23

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Rushed through it... just so i could get to the ending. Felt all the feels in the middle all through the end. And now that am done, all i want is to read it again. The best part about a book is the ending... however, for this book the ending is "suboptional". This is such a great story, with a "transcendentally awesome" ending (reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude...just a little).

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