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| bcf6c35 | All the crockery in China had been smashed - flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors' portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment | hongkong | Paul Theroux |