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    Inside the Life of Madame Mao

    Madame Mao by Ross Terrill is the only English-language biography of Jiang Qing, the last wife of Chairman Mao. First published in 1984, the one…

    Julia_M April 30, 2025 No Comments
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    Caucasus – Part 3

    Day 4 tour. Azerbaijan to Georgia. This morning we are crossing the land border to Georgia to visit the Monastery of St. Nino at Bodbe.…

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    Caucasus – Part 2

    Baku. A petroglyph is a carving or inscription on a rock. One can see many neolithic petroglyphs in Gobustan Open Air museum, about an hour…

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    Papacy, Power and Process

    Pope Francis passed away on 21 April 2025, aged 88. May he Rest In Peace. He has been in office for 12 years. What was…

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    Shanxi – Part 10

    Consistent with Prophet Muhammad’s hadith, I toured Shanxi, China, the province with the most historical sites of China. The Northern Wei started here. Their emperors/empresses…

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Inside the Life of Madame Mao

Julia_M April 30, 2025 No Comments Chinese History (Books)Historical China BiographiesWomen's Biographies

Madame Mao by Ross Terrill is the only English-language biography of Jiang Qing, the last wife of Chairman Mao. First published in 1984, the one…

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Caucasus – Part 3

Julia_M April 29, 2025 No Comments

Day 4 tour. Azerbaijan to Georgia. This morning we are crossing the land border to Georgia to visit the Monastery of St. Nino at Bodbe.…

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Caucasus – Part 2

Julia_M April 27, 2025 No Comments

Baku. A petroglyph is a carving or inscription on a rock. One can see many neolithic petroglyphs in Gobustan Open Air museum, about an hour…

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Papacy, Power and Process

Julia_M April 23, 2025 No Comments Christian Church History (Books)Christian Church Leadership (Books)Christian Popes

Pope Francis passed away on 21 April 2025, aged 88. May he Rest In Peace. He has been in office for 12 years. What was…

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Shanxi – Part 10

Julia_M April 23, 2025 No Comments Biographies of BuddhismChristian Church History (Books)History of JudaismIslamic HistoryMuhammed in IslamSociology Reference

Consistent with Prophet Muhammad’s hadith, I toured Shanxi, China, the province with the most historical sites of China. The Northern Wei started here. Their emperors/empresses…

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Easter Sunday – Part 2

Julia_M April 22, 2025 No Comments Israel & Palestine History (Books)Travel Photography (Books)Travel Pictorial Reference Books

I have been to the Holy Land twice, in 2017 and once earlier. The first was magical as I recall we rushed to enter the…

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Easter Sunday – Part 1

Julia_M April 21, 2025 No Comments Christian Bible History & Culture (Books)JesusNew Testament Commentariesthe Gospels & Acts (Books)

Rereading this book I bought on Easter day, 2014 from Kinokuniya KLCC I find I have highlighted in yellow this lesson from the Parable of…

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Caucasus Tour – Part 1

Julia_M April 18, 2025 No Comments European Politics BooksHuman Geography (Books)Russian History (Books)

This compact book of 295 pages, Caucasus An Introduction by Thomas de Waal, 2nd ed 2019, is a joy to read. De Waal’s prose is…

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The Gang of Four – Part 1

Julia_M April 17, 2025 No Comments Asian History (Books)Chinese History (Books)Legal History (Books)

This book The Cultural Revolution on Trial, published in 2016, is the most recent book on the trial of The Gang of Four. The trial…

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Escape to the East

Julia_M April 14, 2025 No Comments Asian History (Books)Japanese History (Books)Jewish BiographiesJewish History (Books)Military History (Books)WWII Biographies

Here are 2 books on Jewish refugees finding sanctuary in Shanghai during WW 2. Shanghai Sanctuary by Gao Bei [ 2013] narrates that when Europe…

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