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He died on the very day he

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had just won. March 20, 1913.

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Ten forty-five at night.

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Zhabei, Shanghai. The Shanghai station of the

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Shanghai-Nanjing railway. The station building was four

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years old, designed by the British,

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four storeys, built for three hundred and

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twenty-nine thousand silver dollars, one of the

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most presentable railway stations in all of

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China. Tonight the fast train for Nanjing

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was taking tickets. A man had just

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walked out of the assembly members' waiting

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room inside the station.

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He had just shaken hands with the

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people who came to see him off.

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He was still talking.

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Thirty-one years old, in a long gown,

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carrying so little luggage you would think

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he was going on an errand across

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town. Then a shot.

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The bullet entered from the right side

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of his back, drove slanting down into

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his abdomen, and stopped not far from

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his heart. He was taken to the

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Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Hospital on Laobazi Road, a road

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called Wujin Road today. Two German doctors operated

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for more than an hour, took out

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the bullet, and found it had been

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poisoned. He held on for seventeen hours.

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At four forty-eight in the morning of

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March 22, he was gone.

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His name was Song Jiaoren.

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That year, he had just led his

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party to win the first nationwide election

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in the history of this country.

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And that is exactly the question.

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A man who has just won,

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why does he die on his way

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to work? Who needed him dead?

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And who, holding ten cheaper ways to

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stop him, chose the most expensive one,

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the loudest one, the one that could

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never be hidden? And here is the

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detail that will not let go: