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    Frontier Fraternity

    Apr 30, 2020 4 minutes
     By Ji Jing
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    Located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China and bordering Viet Nam, the city of Baise has a special place in Chinese history. It was here that late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping mobilized the Zhuangs, the ethnic minority after whom the region is named, to stage an uprising against the Kuomintang authority in 1929 and built the Youjiang revolutionary base, a bastion of the Communist Party of China. The city has a martyrs’ monument and a museum to commemorate the uprising while the local Zhuang Opera has created a drama on the uprising.

    This month, the city of over 4 million people was given a special

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