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Don’t drink the samshu
A couple months back we looked at early foreign encounters with baijiu, noting that the only positive reviews came from British sailors. Of course, this begs the question as to whether sailors actually liked drinking baijiu – “samshu,” as it … Continue reading
Posted in Historical oddity
Tagged bladders, British, Canton, century of humiliation, fighting, First Opium War, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hugh Gough, Kowloon, opium, Peter Parker, sailors, samshu, smuggling
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Holding your bladder
Last month a court in Beijing sentenced a businessman to life in prison for illegally smuggling over 70 thousand bottles of wine, valued at around RMB45 million ($7.1 million). The man in question, 62-year-old Sun Xitai of Liaoning Province, was … Continue reading
Posted in Historical oddity, News
Tagged Beijing, bladder, customs, gates, history, Peking, smuggling, Sun Xitai, tax evasion, taxes
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