Guest blog: The logic of bandit life: From 20th century Chinese bandits to the contemporary Afghan insurgency
Deedee Derksen
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Chinese bandits never cleaned their guns before noon. That could lead to an attack by the enemy. They didn’t say ‘tiger’ or ‘spirit’, as these words would bring bad luck. Socks were ‘smelly tubes’, bullets ‘white rice’, and they called giving up banditry ‘washing their hands’. Deedee Derksen reads ‘Bandits in Republican China’ by Phil […]
Context and Culture
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