The War with China, Part 2
The Japanese Imperial Army managed to take Wuhan but found it difficult to keep up their previous momentum as Chinese defensive efforts and counter-insurgency begin to wear on the Japanese supply line and threaten to reverse their previous gains.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2025/11/03/the-war-with-china-part-2/
#EarlyShowa #Season15 #Atrocities #CCP #China #Emperor #History #Japan #Jiujiang #KMT #Massacre #Showa #War #Wuhan

Wahnsinn. Lilli #Tagger hats jetzt aber schon sehr spannend gemacht. Nach 3-5 noch mit 7-5 den dritten Satz geholt und damit ins #Finale in #jiujiang eingezogen. Gratulation #tennis #WTA #Austria #tirol

started a #wikipedia article on Ilien Tang (d. 1920), Chinese educator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilien_Tang @wikiwomeninred #China #Jiujiang #Nanchang #kindergarten #Methodist

This is #庐山云雾茶 (#LuShan #CloudAndMist #tea) from my first stomping grounds in #China: #江西省九江市 (#Jiujiang, #Jiangxi). It was here that I stumbled over a tea shop run by a guy who owned his own #plantation in #庐山区 (Lushan District) and where I began to find out that everything I thought I knew about tea was a tiny, tiny, tiny tip of a very, very, very tall mountain of information. I'd visit him weekly, taste his teas (both those he produced himself and those he got from elsewhere) and learned a lot about how to prepare and assess teas (mostly greens and wulongs).

I even went up to his plantation a few times and, for a lark, tried to process my own tea from picking to packaging one time. All I got out of that was calloused fingers and a sore back from picking, blistered fingers from the wok, and about a kilogram of tea that was ... not very good. It had a distinct burnt flavour. (I was told it wasn't bad for a first, untrained try—it was at least green and not browned, and the liquor came out the right colour—but it was still a disappointment.)

I still occasionally pick up tea from 庐山 just out of a sense of reminiscence. I'm still currently working through my Emeishan tea; when I crack the seal on this I'll share again with a picture of the dried leaves, the unfurled post-brew leaves and the liquor.

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