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  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 6/6

    While Hart worked in Ningpo, as you may see, the concern of the Chinese and Westerners had little to do with the Taiping Rebellion and more with pirates and crime.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 5/6

    Tilly, in claim six, ever the historian as she says in her Readers Cafe review of The Concubine Saga, points out that the Santai Dynasty mentioned in chapter four was not the oldest known dynasty when in fact the oldest was the Xia. She is correct but wrong at the same time.  The Xia (or “Hsia” as Lin Yutang (1895…

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 4/6

    In Tilly’s opinion, castrations only took place after a man was hired to work in the Forbidden City … She was wrong!

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 3/6

    No one knows what Hart actually paid for Ayaou or Shao-mei because Hart did not mention the price paid anywhere in his surviving journals

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 2/6

    Tilly claimed that Robert Hart could not have been raised to respect women as equals in Victorian England.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 1/6

    If an author believes he or she has been defamed, then it is the duty of the author to speak out in his or her own defense unless a loyal fan does it first.

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    Originally posted on Good Clean Food: So one of my closest girlfriends went on a crash diet last week in a last ditch attempt to get rid of  5 or so stubborn pounds that she wanted to lose. I think she looks fabulous now, but we all have our “preferred weight”. The crash diet consisted of little or no carbohydrates,…

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    Originally posted on Good Clean Food: It’s Somer Saturday and I’m really REALLY obsessed with Annie’s Cashew Cheez. Ever since she emailed me a demo recipe, vegan life has changed as I know it. I thought I was over cheese, and was starting to be a little snobby, even shunning the likes of Daiya, Teese and Sheese since they are all refined…

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 4/4

    Medical research has found that a properly balanced vegetarian diet may, in fact, be the healthiest diet.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 3/4

    “If it doesn’t work, I’m going back to my cheese pizza, hamburger, French fry, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper diet.”