A pottery toilet ancient Chinese used during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC) has been discovered at the Yueyang City Ruins in Northwest China s Shaanxi Province.
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The Chinese Civil War was not on Chang Hung-ming’s (張鴻明) mind when he arrived in Taiwan in the summer of 1948. The Quanzhou, Fujian native only left his hometown because the village’s Wangye (王爺) deity told him that to stay would bring disaster. Chang’s cousin had just been transferred by the Republic of China Air Force from Nanjing to Tainan, so Chang decided to visit him there.
Chang did not plan to stay long, and all he brought were some clothes and a bit of cash. He didn’t