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The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ji Xianlin [Xianlin, Ji]

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: China April 7,2016 )
Chiang Kai-Shek by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Hahn

10 STILWELL VS. CHENNAULT 1941–43 Chiang now embarked on a new sort of life, heavily involved with foreigners. He held diplomatic discussions with the leaders of the United Nations, and ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Anchee Min [Min, Anchee]

As a comrade with a good record, my case was dropped. I was to be sent to the Shanghai Film Studio to be trained as an actress. The headquarters held ...
( Category: China February 21,2016 )
The Most Wanted Man in China by Fang Lizhi
epub |eng | | Author:Fang Lizhi

12. TURN TOWARD ASTROPHYSICS My work at the brick factory came to an end less than a month after I got back from Huangshan. The authorities reassigned me to the ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2016 )
The Elimination by Rithy Panh
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Rithy Panh [Panh, Rithy]

I study Louis Althusser’s For Marx and some of Étienne Balibar’s texts on Marx and historical materialism. The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. Adorno’s The ...
( Category: Asia February 8,2016 )
The Japan Journals by Donald Richie
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Donald Richie

With Jim Jarmusch, 1990. UNIFRANCE FILM 17 AUGUST 1990. In any event, all other concerns eclipsed in the press by Iraq. What timing. Just when the U.S.A. had lost its ...
( Category: Japan February 6,2016 )
Gandhi, an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi & Mahadev Desai
epub |eng | 1925-01-01 | Author:Mahatma Gandhi & Mahadev Desai [Gandhi, Mahatma & Desai, Mahadev]

22 Faith on its Trial Though I had hired chambers in the Fort and a house in Girgaum, God would not let me settle down. Scarcely had I moved into ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 23,2016 )
Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot by David P. Chandler
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 14,2016 )
Ho Chi Minh by William J. Duiker
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William J. Duiker

Even after signing the September 14 agreement, to the exasperation of his hosts Ho Chi Minh still seemed reluctant to return to Vietnam (in an extended biographical essay on Ho, ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 1,2016 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:John Rabe [Rabe, John]

15 JANUARY As is obvious from the letters that arrived for me yesterday from Shanghai via the German embassy and to which on 14 January I replied to the management ...
( Category: Germany December 2,2015 )
India's Unending Journey: Finding balance in a time of change by Mark Tully
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim
epub |eng | | Author:Eunsun Kim

12 Through the windows, I watched as the Chinese countryside passed before my eyes. On the seat of the taxi, Mom was worrying herself sick. We didn’t have even one ...
( Category: North November 23,2015 )
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Yeonmi Park

Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category: North November 12,2015 )

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