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“It was a peaceful and leisurely life that people lived here, on the whole. Yet, if you look more closely you would see that it was a suburb ready to burst at the seams with a dreadful tropical energy. Foliage sprang up on every hand with a determination unknown to our own polite European vegetation. Dark, glistening green, was smeared over everything as with a pallete knife…”

Delightful. Historical fiction. I'm learning about Nationalist China and the war with Japan.