1931: The Empire State building, one hundred and two storeys high, is completed.
1931: Eastern Jewel is recruited as a spy for the Japanese and Pu Yi goes to Manchuria.
1935: The FBI National Academy is established.
1935: Eastern Jewel is sent to Peking to work for the Japanese secret service,
1936: The Spanish Civil War begins.
1936: Eastern Jewel parties in high society in Peking.
1939: The Second World War breaks out.
1939: Eastern Jewel is still the partying princess in Peking.
1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
1941: Eastern Jewel is made president of the China Gold Mining Company and of the Association of Manchurians in Peking.
1942: Fermi conducts the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
1942: Eastern Jewel makes friends and enemies in Peking.
1945: America drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945: Eastern Jewel is arrested in Peking by Chiang Kai-shek's forces and sent to Peking Number One Prison.
1947: The first supersonic flight.
1947: Eastern Jewel is brought before a military tribunal and found guilty of spying for the Japanese against China.
1948: The State of Israel comes into existence.
1948: Eastern Jewel loses her appeal against the guilty verdict and is executed by beheading on March 25th in Peking Number One Prison.
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