As ships sank and the sea off the coast of Guangdong filled with corpses, the Mongol ships approached the vessel carrying Zhao Shi and his court. According to legend, rather than hand the boy over to the enemy, Lu Xiufu, a prime minister in Zhao Shi’s court, grabbed the young ruler and jumped into the sea drowning them both.
All Good Things Must Come to an End
Peter Parker in Canton
Guardians of the Past: The Diaolou of Guangdong
The Guangzhou Massacre of 889
Some rules cannot be broken
The Electric Camel
Forever Repeating the Past
The Religion of Opiates
The Great Chinese Tea Theft
Dens of Iniquity
The Empire Strikes Back: The Battle of Sanyuanli
A Few Days in North Korea
Walking the Pearl River Delta
In 2015, The Guardian reported the Pearl River Delta region had overtaken Tokyo to become the world’s largest urban area in both geographic size and population. To find out what that looks like at ground level, I would walk 100 km from Guangzhou East Train Station to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport.