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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 )
The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

CHAPTER XVII Eling Gets a Taste of Public Life In may 1931 the group of dissatisfied leaders in Canton interrupted the people’s convention that was being held at Nanking with ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
South of the Clouds by Bill Porter
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Bill Porter

The Stone Forest of Lunan It was only 125 kilometers southeast of Kunming and was already becoming a major tourist destination. But its fame was not recent. Over 2,300 years ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
Behind the Red Door:Sex in China by Burger Richard
mobi |eng | | Author:Burger, Richard. [Burger, Richard.]

Homosexuality No country has as rich and unusual a history of homosexuality as China. For centuries, China was more tolerant of same-sex love than nearly any other society, rivaled perhaps ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
mobi |eng | 2009-02-23 | Author:Xinran

In a Zhengzhou street, 2006, interviewing the shoe-mender, who was at first too shy to be photographed; on the right of the photo are instructions on how to clean your ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
The People's Republic of Amnesia by Lim Louisa
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lim, Louisa

In an essay dating from 1991, Liu Xiaobo wrote, “When we look at those ‘Tiananmen Mothers’ who so tirelessly persist in seeking justice for victims, can elite survivors like us ...
( Category: Asian March 5,2016 )
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 )
Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China by Harold M. Tanner
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Harold M. Tanner

LIN BIAO’S HESITATION The feasibility of Chiang’s plan of action can be gauged by Lin Biao’s reaction: it nearly caused him to call off the attack on Jinzhou. To understand ...
( Category: China January 22,2016 )
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 )
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Paul French

Closet investigations, secret meetings, people being bundled out of the city—it all seemed outlandish to Dennis. And despite the pact of silence in his office, the rumours and gossip inevitably ...
( Category: China January 9,2016 )
China's Forgotten People by Nick Holdstock
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Nick Holdstock

Though Enver and Rebiya Kadeer became dissidents for very different reasons, both paid a heavy price for denouncing Chinese-government policy in Xinjiang. As Stuart Tanner puts it: ‘It takes some ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 4,2016 )
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Mitter Rana
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Mitter, Rana [Mitter, Rana]

PART IV THE POISONED ALLIANCE Chapter 13 Destination Burma SINCE THAT TERRIBLE DAY in December 1941, they had been captives. Spring had come to Guangdong province, but the new season ...
( Category: China January 2,2016 )
History and Popular Memory by Cohen Paul A
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
Striking Beauty by Allen Barry
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Allen, Barry [Allen, Barry]

I differentiated sport and dance in terms of expressive intentionality. Dance movements are endotelic and look it. Sport movements are competitive, contesting, and look it. Martial arts movements are weapons, ...
( Category: Taoism December 26,2015 )

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