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Prof Faure’s book on the sinofication of the Guangdong province since the Ming Dynasty. All the big Guangdong clans claim that they were originally of the gentry class from the North, which of course is a load of bull. Via 船山筆記.
Update (31/12): I ordered from Amazon on 13/12 (US time), and received it on 28/12. [...]

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MT4 has been released under GPL, so I played with it for a bit last night. Except for a very very brief period of time, there has always been a free (beer) and somewhat limited but very usable for single blogger version of MT. Now GPLed MT4 is fully functional multi-user multi-blog.
MT has a few [...]

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