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China protest

Class Notes: A Protest March

Nonfiction
By: Wang Xiaoni | Translated By: Eleanor Goodman | June 16, 2017

September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality… More

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