Asia
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Gary Paulsen

CHAPTER SEVEN TOWN LIFE They went into camp again and this time they sat for three months. They were there so long they thought of the camp as a town ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1998-04-15 | Author:Jasper Becker

An eyewitness from another commune in the same region described much the same situation: ‘The famine lasted from 1962 until 1965. My brothers went around picking up whatever food they ...
( Category: Asian April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...
( Category: Japan April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:

Father Pedro de San Dominico Matthias Francisco Gorosuke Miguel Shin’emon Dominico Kisuke This list includes only the names of the priests and monks who were martyred in the village in ...
( Category: Japanese April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Joel Brinkley

CHAPTER TEN When the government delivered some emergency food assistance, three hundred residents of Dang Rung village rioted. Some of them saw the sacks of free rice, scores of them, ...
( Category: Asian April 5,2015 )
epub | | 2013-05-28 | Author:Joe Studwell

Part 4 Where China Fits In ‘The basic point is: we must acknowledge that we are backward, that many of our ways of doing things are inappropriate, and that we ...
( Category: Comparative March 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Meyer, Michael [Meyer, Michael]

The one correct classroom chalkboard said that 790 days remained until the Olympics. Class Two still held that 996 days remained, but time continued to flow around it. Beijing’s late-June ...
( Category: China March 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:John King Fairbank && Merle Goldman

15 The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party Problems of Life on the Land Among the origins of a revolutionary movement, the popular mentality among illiterate farmers is least ...
( Category: China March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:May-lee Chai

Hong Kong For most of the twentieth century, until 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. Hong Kong was originally ceded to Great Britain in 1842, after ...
( Category: General March 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:John Rabe

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: China March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Paul Fischer [Fischer, Paul]

19 The Hunger Strike In Prison Number 6, Shin passed the time in remaking all his films. “In the torture position, which I had to assume immediately after breakfast,” Shin ...
( Category: North March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Judge, William Q [Judge, William Q]

Letters That Have Helped Me By William Q. Judge LETTERS 9-23 Letter 9 I do not know what to write, for I've been so occupied with people. I am anxious ...
( Category: Theosophy March 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Raman, B. [Raman, B.]

CHAPTER XIV Geneva And Bofors I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to ...
( Category: Reference March 16,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Xiao-bo , Wu [Xiao-bo , Wu]

Li Dong-sheng, Chairman of the TCL Group, together with Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, at a forum in China in 2004. For Chinese entrepreneurs to be seated on the ...
( Category: China March 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:Halberstam, David [Halberstam, David]

IF THERE WERE historic forces working against a true alliance, the relationship was made much more difficult by Stalin’s megalomania and by the fact that both men ruled nations where ...
( Category: Korean War March 15,2015 )