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Historical Records of the Five Dynasties by Ouyang Xiu; Davis Richard;
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:Ouyang, Xiu; Davis, Richard;

Li Cunjin Native to Zhenwu, Li Cunjin [d. C.E. 922] had the original surname Sun and personal name Chongjin. Taizu obtained him in the conquest of Shuozhou, only to confer ...
( Category: Asia September 18,2018 )
Exodus Burma by Felicity Goodall
epub |eng | | Author:Felicity Goodall

A separate line of camps was constructed for Indians. The two routes became known as the White and Black routes,51 although in the governor’s official report on the crisis it ...
( Category: Military September 18,2018 )
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby [Dimbleby, Jonathan]

This ‘understanding’ had allowed Lord Young, among others, to nurture his relationship with China – even when, as a member of the Cabinet, he was subject to the bar on ...
( Category: Asia September 15,2018 )
The Uyghurs by Bovingdon Gardner;
epub |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Bovingdon, Gardner;

GOVERNMENT RESPONSES Between 1980 and 1997, the governments in Beijing and Ürümci made concessions in only four instances to matters raised during demonstrations. After a series of protests by Han ...
( Category: Asia September 14,2018 )
City of Devils by Paul French
epub |eng | | Author:Paul French

* * * 24 Plum rains; gold fever. The annual plum rains, the meiyu, hammer Shanghai in July 1939, steaming off the sidewalks as the newly arrived humidity evaporates the ...
( Category: True Crime September 14,2018 )
The Terracotta Warriors by Edward Burman
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Edward Burman

9 WHAT IS IN THE MAUSOLEUM? The title of this chapter presupposes an answer to the apparently much simpler question, what in the mind of kings and emperors of that ...
( Category: Archaeology September 13,2018 )
Heaven's Wind: The Life and Teachings of Nakamura Tempu-A Mind-Body Integration Pioneer by Stephen Earle
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Stephen Earle [Earle, Stephen]

The prana can be stopped by way of retention after exhalation.… We breathe out, gradually and intensely, in a very spontaneous, flowing manner, and then do not breathe in; this ...
( Category: Asia September 11,2018 )
Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Bruce Feiler [Feiler, Bruce]

The next morning when we arrived at the base of the mountain a little after ten o’clock, people were visible at every turn. According to a popular saying, every person ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 10,2018 )
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
epub |eng | 2004-03-31 | Author:Inazo Nitobe [Nitobe, Inazo]

I refrain from quoting other examples, for I know I could do only scant justice to the pearly gems of our literature, were I to render into a foreign tongue ...
( Category: Philosophy September 10,2018 )
The Chrysanthemum And The Sword by Ruth Benedict
epub |eng | 1947-09-06 | Author:Ruth Benedict

( Category: Anthropology September 7,2018 )
Journey to Enlightenment by Matthieu Ricard
epub |eng | | Author:Matthieu Ricard

When I arrived for the first time, Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Rinpoche told me that the night before he had dreamt of meeting the first Khyentse, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. “It is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 6,2018 )
Pentagon Papers by Neil Sheehan & Hedrick Smith
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Neil Sheehan & Hedrick Smith [Sheehan, Neil & Smith, Hedrick]

Chapter 7 The Launching of the Ground War: March-July, 1965 Highlights of the Period: March-July, 1965 Within a month of the start of Operation Rolling Thunder, the Pentagon study says, ...
( Category: Military September 6,2018 )
Placing Empire by McDonald Kate
epub |eng | | Author:McDonald, Kate

FIGURE 9. “‘Utsukushii shima’ Taiwan o nozoku” (Peering into Taiwan, the “beautiful island”). The cover of a 1939 Tabi special issue placed an image of men of the Amis people ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2018 )
China by Adeline Yen Mah
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Yen Adeline]

Kublai Khan taking part in a hunting expedition SIEGE BY SEESAW In 1268, Kublai ordered the construction of an enormous river feet of 500 boats and laid siege to the ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2018 )
Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank McLynn

13 The Twilight Years THE HISTORY OF Genghis Khan and the Mongols can sometimes seem no more than an endless recital of massacres with pyramids of skulls. Yet Genghis and ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2018 )

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