Japanese Colonial authorities on Taiwan started the women attended bath in Peitou hot spring. After Imperial Japanese Army left Taiwan, KMT used Peitou hot spring sex industry to cater to US troops.
Chiang Kai-shek esp ordered regulation on taxi, hotel and sex workers health check to cater to US GI because GI spend abt $200 per visit. Taiwan earned total abt 10 billion Taiwan dollars during Vietnam War. This part of Taiwan economic takeoff rarely discussed
Times Magazine “Christmas in Vietnam” special described Taipei as offering little in terms of cultural site other than Chinese arts in Palace Musuem but appealed to US troops because the “compliance of its girls and excellence of its food”
The US soldier Allen Charles Bailey was apparently killed in Vietnam at age 20, 1 year before his photo w 2 girls in Taiwan hot spring got published in Times Magazine Dec 22nd, 1967 issue.
Times Magazine "Christmas in Viet Nam" special on US military R&R aka sex tourism in East Asia frm Dec 22, 1967 can be found in Times Vault: time.com/vault/issue/19…
Vietnam War Era official US military R&R brochure for Taiwan:
"Do not purchase the company of a girl for more than 24hrs at a time. they seldom look as good in the morning"
Times Magazine "Christmas in Viet Nam" Dec 22, 1967 time.com/vault/issue/19…
US troops stationed on Taiwan and Vietnam War era GIs on R&R left 1,000 Ameriasian children behind on Tawan twreporter.org/a/amerasian-fi…
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Chinese bro traveled to Gilgit in Pakistan administered Kashmir to marry his Kalash gf.
He met her in his travels to Gilgit a couple of yrs ago while working in Pakistan. They maintained contact, had an online relationship.
Kalash said to descend frm Alexander the Great's Macedonian Army. Recent DNA tests showed that they're not related to Greeks but rather descend frm Bronze Age Proto-Indo-European tribes that migrated to the Indian subcontinent frm the Central Asian Steppe.
There're only abt 3,000 Kalash people who adhere to their ancient religion.
I had only read abt Kalash people in National Geographics and Human Genome project. It's wild to see this content showing up on my Douyin feed.
Chinese bro stayed in her isolated Kalash mountain village for over 2 months while waiting for their marriage certification and her travel documents processed
It's utterly fascinating to see this Chinese bro get a front row seat to this unique culture hiding away in the mountains of Hindu Kush
Chinese bro went with his Kalash wife to visit her sister who married a 70 yr old man in an arranged marriage.
Predictably many in Douyin comments ask him to introduce them to a Kalash gf. Bro said he won't do it and won't recommend even to his own 3 single male cousins in China. He said because there's a huge linguistic/cultural difference to overcome, his own case is special because he had lived and worked in Pakistan for many years, and he met his wife during his travels. He also mentioned that it's more difficult to travel to Northern Areas in Pakistan because there're many restrictions due to its sensitive status as a disputed area with India.
In this history thread, I will talk about how the direct ancestor of Miss Russia 2011 Natalia Gantimurova led to the 1st China Russia border war and Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689.
Her ancestor Gantimur was a Tungus tribal chief who got caught up in Russian and Qing expansion 🧵
Russian Cossacks' pursuit of fur brought them deep into Siberia Taiga in 17th century. Like Viking before them, they expanded their control via navigable rivers. They're also looking a trade route to China. Oriat Mongols they encountered told them of a Bogda Khagan (Heaven Khan)
Cossacks crossed Lake Baikal into Dauria or the land of Daur (people). Mongol Tüsheet Khan ruled Dauria. But Dzungar ruler Galdan Boshugtu Khan defeated Tüsheet Khan along w other Khans of Outer Mongolia, driven them to Inner Mongolia to seek protection of Qing Empire
188cm Ukrainian cosplayer Karina at Hangzhou ad02 animation expo. Her fanbase mostly young Chinese women.
She became a cosplayer aft moving to China w her Chinese husband, gained 3.5million Douyin fans. Her husband cheated on her then drowned in Bali's Kuta Beach last Nov on his birthday during their vacation together. Her fans are glad that she seems to be doing ok now.
Karina actually became famous for cosplaying male characters. She towers over her now dead husband who's only 183cm.
Her hubby had responded to how they did photoshoot in which he appeared taller.
He cheated on her while she was pregnant. They made up just before Bali vacation and his drowning death. Karina said she tried to save him but the wave was too strong
Karina actually became famous for cosplaying male characters. She towers over her now dead husband who's only 183cm.
Her hubby had responded to how they did photoshoot in which he appeared taller.
He cheated on her while she was pregnant. They made up just before Bali vacation and his drowning death. Karina said she tried to save him but the wave was too strong
Ethiopian Chinese baby. Father works for a shoe factory.
Many Chinese textile and shoe factories moved to Africa to go around the US imposed quota on Chinese manufactured goods and take advantage of The African Growth and Opportunity Act which provides duty-free treatment to goods of designated sub-Saharan African countries (SSAs)
Chinese comments on the Douyin video: "Does your shoe factories still need people?"
Many thirsty single men in China
Salary day at a Chinese textile factory in Ethiopia.
Chinese factories off-shored to Africa employ mostly local African workers with a small managerial staff send from China.
Made in Ethiopian goods will sell to the US and EU market without facing restrictions on Chinese goods
Emperor Yongzheng (1722-1735) cosplaying as a French nobleman hunting tiger with traditional Chinese trident.
Yongzheng had commissioned many painting of him dressing variously as Han literati, Mongol/Turkic prince, Tibetan lama. They are collectively called 雍正行乐图 literally Yongzheng's fun pictures.
Yongzheng as a Turkic (Uyghur) prince. The robe is made from atlas silk produced in Xinjiang